In my exclusive deep dive earlier this week detailing The Architect vs. The Accelerant, I revealed that a potential pairing in the Twin Cities was being heavily bottlenecked because Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards had not yet extended a direct, formal line of communication to recruit James. That report immediately set the league’s baseline for Minnesota’s true pursuit. However, high-level sources intimately familiar with James’ camp have immediately moved to clear the air, reaching out directly to update my notebook and reveal that those initial hurdles have officially been cleared. According to top-tier institutional sources close to the situation, the connection between the two Olympic teammates has already been activated. “They telling you, Ant Edwards never reached out to him. That’s a lie,” a source close to the process tells me point-blank. “He did. He reached out to him and it was received.”
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