Three stars from Monday's NBA playoffs

Brunson adds to his New York legend with every playoff game. Knocking off the defending champions would take him to another level.

Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards | 30 points, 5 assists, 6 3PM

The Golden State Warriors actually did a good job containing Anthony Edwards for the first part of their Game 4 battle. Then the Timberwolves All-Star hit a ridiculous 30-foot buzzer-beater to end the first half, and he didn't look back.

After cutting the Warriors' lead to two points before the break, Edwards remained red-hot in the third quarter. He scored 16 points to the Warriors' 17 in the third as Minnesota outscored Golden State, 39-17, with Edwards making two threes and one three-point play.

Edwards finished with 30 points in Minnesota's 117-110 victory in Game 4, giving him 66 points in the Timberwolves' two road wins in San Francisco. The 23-year-old is hard to handle when he's just going to the hoop. When he's also hitting threes, opposing defenses have no hope.

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Julius Randle | 31 points, 3 assists, 4 3PM

Julius Randle turned himself into an All-Star with the New York Knicks. After a triple-double in the Timberwolves' Game 3 win, Randle turned himself into a deadly shooter in Game 4, sinking four three-pointers as the Timberwolves shot 47.1 percent behind the arc for the game.

The Warriors tried to compensate for Randle's size and strength by putting a center on him to start the game, and Randle responded with 10 first-quarter points. He's a matchup nightmare for Golden State: Too big for their guards to handle outside, too good a shooter for their bigs on the perimeter and too good of a passer (32 assists in four games) to double-team. Kevon Looney is a great rebounder (eight boards in 14 minutes), but the Wolves' three-point shooting bigs are a problem for him.

The only knock on Randle Monday night was that he finally missed a free throw after hitting his first 18 straight. He's now 21-of-22 for the series, proving that even fouling him doesn't work.

Honorable mention: Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum | 42 points 8 rebounds, 4 steals

Tatum was the only Celtic keeping the team in the game during the Knicks' fourth-quarter onslaught. He left after an injury late in the fourth quarter that looked devastating. If this is his last playoff game, Tatum did himself proud.

Get well soon.