How tall is Anthony Edwards?

Anthony Edwards' listed height and weight

Anthony Edwards is listed by the NBA at 193 cm (6′4″) and 102 kg (225 lb). That is the figure on his NBA.com profile with the Minnesota Timberwolves, and it is the one this site uses. It also matters which era of NBA listings it comes from: Edwards entered the league in the 2020 draft, the year after the NBA told teams, as NBC Sports reported in September 2019, to certify every player's height measured with shoes off. So unlike the generously rounded listings of the 1990s and 2000s, his 6′4″ is meant to be a barefoot figure.

Before the NBA, the University of Georgia listed him at 6′5″ and 225 pounds on its 2019–20 roster. A one-inch difference between a college roster and an NBA listing is common, because colleges are not bound by the league's shoeless rule and frequently list players in sneakers or round up. The weight stayed identical between the two listings, which says something about how physically mature Edwards already was as an 18-year-old freshman.

Pre-draft scouting reports in 2020 described a guard who was not unusually tall for his position but unusually strong and explosive. The 2020 NBA Draft Combine was disrupted by the pandemic, and an official, widely published set of his barefoot and wingspan measurements is hard to find from a primary source. Online figures for his wingspan vary from about 6′7″ to 7′0″, and since none of the reliable sources we checked publish an official number, this page does not repeat one.

A 6′4″ shooting guard built like a running back

What separates Edwards from most 193 cm guards is mass, not length. At 102 kg, his listed weight is closer to that of many NBA forwards than to the typical shooting guard. His body mass index works out to about 27.4, a figure that would be classed as overweight for the general population but reflects muscle in a professional athlete, which shows why BMI is a poor guide for elite sportspeople.

That build has a backstory. Before basketball took over, Edwards was a youth football player in Atlanta, playing running back, quarterback and cornerback for the Atlanta Vikings, and by age 10 he was regarded as one of the top Pop Warner running backs in the country. He switched to basketball after watching his older brothers play. The low center of gravity, leg drive and comfort with contact that make a good running back are still visible when he drives into the lane.

In basketball terms, his height sits right in the middle of the shooting guard range. NBA guards today typically fall between about 188 cm (6′2″) and 198 cm (6′6″), and wings stretch higher. Edwards is not a "big guard" by length; what he does is play bigger than his listing through strength, a fast first step and a vertical leap that has produced some of the most replayed dunks of the 2020s.

Height and the way Edwards scores

• Finishing through contact. At 225 pounds he can absorb a bump from a forward and still finish, which shorter or lighter guards often cannot.
• Pull-up shooting. Because he is not tall enough to shoot over most wings comfortably, he creates separation with the dribble. In 2024–25 he led the NBA in three-pointers made with 320.
• Poster dunks. His dunk over John Collins, a 6′9″ forward, was named the NBA's Dunk of the Year for 2023–24. Rising over a player roughly 13 cm taller is what turns a dunk into a highlight.
• Defense. His strength lets him guard bigger wings for stretches, something a lighter 6′4″ guard would struggle to do.

From Georgia to the No. 1 pick

Edwards played one college season at Georgia in 2019–20, averaging 19.1 points, 5.2 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. Georgia's roster bio notes that his 610 points rank seventh on the school's single-season list and that his 19.1 points per game led all freshmen nationally. He was named SEC Freshman of the Year and a finalist for the Jerry West Award for the country's best shooting guard. His 37-point game against Michigan State at the 2019 Maui Invitational became his most-cited college performance.

The Minnesota Timberwolves selected him first overall in the 2020 draft. At the time, the debate around him was not about his size, which was viewed as ideal for an NBA shooting guard, but about consistency and shot selection. Edwards went on to finish second in Rookie of the Year voting and make the All-Rookie First Team.

Career milestones

Edwards' rise has been steep. The highlights below come from his NBA.com profile and league records summarized on Wikipedia.

Internationally he has been just as productive. At the 2023 FIBA World Cup he started all eight games for the United States and led the team in scoring at 18.9 points per game, earning All-Tournament Team honors. A year later he won an Olympic gold medal with Team USA in Paris.

Edwards next to his teammates and rivals

Because Minnesota built its roster around big men, Edwards has spent much of his career as the shortest starter on his own team. The heights below come from this site's data, so the gaps are calculated from official listings.

A few of these matchups carry real context. Minnesota lost the 2024 Western Conference Finals to Luka Dončić's Dallas Mavericks, and the 2025 Western Conference Finals to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's Oklahoma City Thunder. In both series Edwards was the smaller star, giving up 5 to 10 cm to the opposing team's primary creator. In 2026, Minnesota's playoff run ended against San Antonio, led by Victor Wembanyama, who is about 30 cm taller than Edwards.

Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry were his Olympic teammates in 2024. Edwards sits almost exactly between them in height, about 5 cm taller than Curry and 18 cm shorter than Durant, a spread that illustrates how wide the range of "guard" and "wing" has become in modern basketball. You can reproduce any of these gaps with the height difference calculator.

The Jordan comparison and what it does and doesn't say about size

Edwards has been compared with Michael Jordan since his rookie year, by fans, commentators and even some former players. The comparison is mostly stylistic: an athletic shooting guard who attacks the rim, plays with visible competitiveness and carries a team's scoring load. It is not a comparison of frames. Jordan is stored on this site at 198 cm (6′6″) and 89.8 kg, so Edwards gives up about 5 cm of height while carrying roughly 12 kg more listed weight.

That difference shows up in how each player's game is described. Jordan's height let him shoot fadeaways over most guards, while Edwards relies more on strength and pull-up range. Neither player was tall by NBA standards for elite wings, which is part of why their athleticism stands out.

A family story behind the number 5

Edwards' personal history is often mentioned alongside his rise, and it is relevant here only because it explains his jersey. His mother, Yvette, and grandmother, Shirley, both died of cancer within eight months of each other in 2015, when he was in eighth grade. Both died on the fifth day of a month, which is why he has worn No. 5 since high school. His older siblings, Antoinette and Antoine, raised him afterward. Reliable sources do not publish the heights of his family members, so this page does not speculate about them.

The smallest starter in a lineup of giants

Edwards' height is easiest to appreciate in the context of the roster Minnesota built around him in 2023–24. The Timberwolves started two 7-footers in the frontcourt, Rudy Gobert and Karl-Anthony Towns, and after Towns was traded to New York in 2024, the frontcourt stayed big with Julius Randle (206 cm) alongside Gobert. Gobert won his fourth Defensive Player of the Year award in 2024, and the Wolves' defense was built around his rim protection. In that setting, Edwards was the shortest player in the starting five on most nights, yet he was the team's primary scorer and the player opponents game-planned against.

That arrangement shaped his role. With two centers clogging the paint, Edwards often had to create shots from the perimeter or attack before help defenders arrived. It also explains why his strength mattered so much: when he did get to the rim, he was frequently finishing against help defenders who were six to nine inches taller. His ability to finish over or through length was one of the main reasons Minnesota's half-court offense could function in those back-to-back conference finals runs, because the big men beside him were not primarily shot creators off the dribble.

There is also a quieter point about his position. In earlier eras, a 6′4″ guard with his build might have been asked to play point guard. In a league where 6′8″ and 6′9″ players regularly handle the ball, Edwards has been free to play as a pure scoring guard, with taller teammates and forwards sharing ball-handling duties. Modern spacing has rewarded exactly the kind of strong, mid-sized guard he is.

Compared with the average American man

Edwards was born in 2001. The closest NCD-RisC birth cohort on this site is 1996, for which the average height of American men is 177.1 cm (about 5′9.7″). At 193 cm, Edwards is about 16 cm (6.3 inches) taller than his average peer.

In everyday terms, a 6′4″ man is in roughly the top few percent of American adult men. The height percentile calculator puts a precise number on that using US survey data, and the average height in the United States page explains how the national figures are built.

Visualizing Edwards' height

The easiest way to understand Edwards' size is to place him in context. Next to the average American man he looks tall; next to Gobert or Wembanyama he looks like a different sport. In the 3D height comparison tool you can line him up with any of the players above, including those without their own page here, since the full player catalog remains searchable.

Summary

Anthony Edwards is officially 193 cm (6′4″) and 102 kg (225 lb), a shoeless NBA listing that is an inch shorter than the 6′5″ Georgia printed when he was a freshman. His height is average for an NBA shooting guard, but his strength, football-honed build and leaping ability let him play like a much bigger player. The No. 1 pick in 2020 has since become a four-time All-Star, a two-time All-NBA selection, an Olympic gold medalist and the league leader in three-pointers made in 2024–25, repeatedly leading Minnesota against opponents who were taller than him.