May 28, 2025; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards warms up before game five of the western conference finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder for the 2025 NBA Playoffs at Paycom Center. Mandatory Credit: Alonzo Adams-Imagn Images Alonzo Adams-Imagn Images

Cubs players do double take as Wolves’ Anthony Edwards runs stairs at Target Field

Originally posted on Minnesota Timberwolves on SI
By Joe Nelson | Last updated Jul 9, 2025 9:15 AM ET

Little did anyone watching Tuesday night's baseball game between the Minnesota Twins and Chicago Cubs know that information about Timberwolves superstar Anthony Edwards would be unveiled — but that's exactly what happened when Cubs television announcer Boog Sciambi shared an interesting tidbit from his day at the ballpark in Minneapolis.

[Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong was during] pregame wearing kind of a peach, pinkish-colored spike, and they were the Anthony Edwards 1 (Ant's signature AE1 shoe)," Sciambi said. "Anthony Edwards, the outstanding player for the Timberwolves — he was actually in the ballpark running stairs today. All the players during early BP were looking from afar, 'Is that him? I think that's him.'"

Boog Sciambi reporting that Cubs breakout CF Pete Crow-Armstrong was wearing AE1 cleats during early pre-game work.

Players on the field during BP were looking into the stands to see Ant doing some stairs cardio. https://t.co/5rgQgFKF3q pic.twitter.com/R4PqvALa5H
— Jonah (@Huncho_Jman) July 9, 2025

Edwards, 23, is clearly putting in the work ahead of the 2025-26 season. He's led Minnesota to back-to-back appearances in the Western Conference Finals, and the pressure on him entering his age-24 season — his sixth in the NBA — is greater than ever after the Wolves lost Nickeil Alexander-Walker and are otherwise running it back with largely the same roster.

On top of that, Edwards will have to guide the Wolves through a Western Conference field that might be the toughest it has been since Minnesota drafted Edwards first overall in 2020.

Can Edwards elevate his game to the level required to be a top-four team in the West next season? That remains to be seen, but running stairs in 85-degree heat at Target Field in the middle of July is a pretty good indication that he's willing to do everything it takes to get there.