With Anthony Edwards, Minnesota is among the teams that could add to NBA’s parity era

Minnesota star Anthony Edwards is acutely aware of how this is the NBA’s parity era, with eight different franchises winning the last eight championships.

That stat might give some teams hope.

Edwards looks at the situation differently.

“I don’t really have hope. I just got will,” Edwards told The Associated Press. “I’m just all will. It’s like, ‘I don’t think he’s better than me. I don’t think that they can beat me and my team.’ It’s just that simple. Whoever we line up against, you just not going to sit here and tell me that their team is going to beat our team. It’s that simple, I don’t hope. I don’t wish for nothing. It’s straight will and determination. And we’re going to show it every night.”

That sounds like the words of a star ready to lead his team to a breakthrough. If recent history is ...