NBA Player Anthony Edwards Apologizes After Video With Insensitive Comments Trends

Minnesota Timberwolves star, Anthony Edwards found himself in hot water today after a viral video of his started trending.  The athlete posted in his stories last night and made some disparaging comments about a group of men.  Today, Anthony Edwards apologizes for the insensitive comments.

Edwards took to Twitter with his apology, trying to get ahead of critics.  He shared, “What I said was immature, hurtful, and disrespectful, and I’m incredibly sorry. It’s unacceptable for me or anyone to use that language in such a hurtful way, there’s no excuse for it, at all. I was raised better than that!”

Anthony Edwards forgot to hop on his burner 😭 pic.twitter.com/RQfUWEvpWX

— Drew (@PGSupremacy) September 11, 2022

The original video was deleted from his stories, but as usual, the video was grabbed by fans.  It was trending on social media.  Take a look at it below:

Anthony Edwards forgot to hop on his burner 😭 pic.twitter.com/RQfUWEvpWX

— Drew (@PGSupremacy) September 11, 2022

Despite the Anthony Edwards apology, social media was already all over Edwards. Here’s a look at some of the tweets reacting to the original video:

So Anthony Edwards saw a group of gay men simply minding their business and that bothered him enough to make a video and post it on social media and that’s not homophobia to y’all? Smh

— dre (@teedreeezy) September 11, 2022

anthony edwards’ social media manager coming into work tomorrow pic.twitter.com/efbqEmZm4X

— soumyajit (@gab_loo) September 11, 2022

Damn, they gonna have my son Anthony Edwards doing a PSA with Saucy Santana now for the NBA. Hate it had to be him 🥴

— Tha Ghost (@ThaGhostMamba) September 11, 2022

Thoughts on the Anthony Edwards apology???

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