Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards will undergo an arthroscopic procedure on his right knee and could miss up to two months, ESPN's Shams Charania reported, citing sources. ESPN and Yahoo Sports describe the knee as "ailing." Yahoo's wording varies by item. One says he will miss "around two months, according to multiple reports," and another says simply "two months." ESPN, Hoops Rumors and Sportsnet all say "up to" two months, which is a ceiling, not a firm timeline. None of the feeds we have gives a date for the surgery or a return target beyond that.

The timing is hard on Minnesota. Edwards has played three regular-season games and scored 45 at Miami on Oct. 21, 26 against Toronto on Oct. 25 and 47 at Cleveland on Oct. 26. That is 118 points, about 39 a game, and he shot 44.3 percent from the field and made 4.3 threes a game. Yahoo said he had looked like a serious MVP candidate, and SB Nation called the Timberwolves the most exciting team in the league through the first week.

The Cleveland game was his heaviest workload of the year. In the 127-125 overtime loss he went 19-of-33 from the field and 5-of-15 from three, with four assists, four rebounds and four turnovers, in 41 minutes. His season average is 31.3 minutes. The reporting doesn't say when the knee problem began or whether that game was connected to the decision.

The outlets differ on Minnesota's record. Yahoo says Edwards led the team to a 4-0 start. BenchScout's tables show the Wolves at 2-1 in the 2027 regular season, third in the Northwest Division, on a one-game losing streak after Cleveland. The other two results were a 131-106 win at Miami and a 117-94 win over Toronto. We have 2-1 as the regular-season record.

Hoops Rumors, passing along a point from Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix, notes that Edwards joins a long list of early-season injuries. It names Jalen Williams, Paolo Banchero, Kawhi Leonard, Jaren Jackson Jr., Cason Wallace and Jalen Suggs, and the excerpt cuts off after that. The injuries listed there are not specified in the text we have.

Minnesota's next game is Wednesday at home against Golden State, and then Friday against the Clippers. Both come without its leading scorer. Any further detail on the procedure date or the return timeline will have to come from the team or from ESPN's follow-up reporting.