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"They're absolutely awful. Every single one of them, except for the woman. The other two guys, just horrible. Making lame excuses instead of calling fouls, it's ridiculous. The whole situation was just terrible. They refuse to engage with my coach or me, it's like they don't even care. I made one simple comment to the referee and he hit me with a technical foul. Ridiculous."

That's only about half of Anthony Edwards' rant after the Timberwolves fell to the Warriors on Saturday night. He knew the fine was coming, so he got his money's worth, but the league did not hold back either, and he was fined $75,000 for "public criticism of the officiating and using inappropriate and profane language."

Edwards' frustration is not just with the officials. After losing to the Knicks — and former teammate Karl-Anthony Towns — last Thursday, a frustrated Edwards said, "We don't have s*** on offense. We don't have no identity. We know I'm gonna shoot a bunch of shots, we know [Julius Randle] gonna shoot a bunch of shots, and that's all we know." The Timberwolves' offense is in the bottom 10 in the NBA, and part of it is the fit and lack of spacing between Edwards and Randle — Minnesota has run the sixth most isolation sets in the NBA this season but is scoring just 0.77 points per possession on those, which is fourth worst in the league.

That clunky offense — as well as the Timberwolves' elite defense, which is keeping the team afloat — will be on display on Christmas Day when Minnesota travels to Dallas to take on the Mavericks in a rematch of the Western Conference Finals. It will be Edwards' first Christmas Day game.

Let's just hope he likes the officiating.