Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards ordered to pay $14K in child support — to kid he’s never met

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Key points

• Edwards, in the midst of a five-year, $244 million accord with the Timberwolves, paid over $100, 000 in backing to Howard beginning in 2025 before the Georgia judge's ruling.
• The $14, 000 bill comes on top of the $3, 222 Edwards was ordered to pay in child backing to Ayesha Howard for their one-year-old daughter last month.
• The Timberwolves star was ordered to pay a monthly sum of $14, 000 in child backing to his ex, Alexandria Desroches, according to TMZ.
• Last month, Minnesota marriage records indicated Edwards married Shannon Jackson after he was spotted at Fanatics Fest in New York wearing a wedding ring.
• "I don't think Ant was the biggest Julius Randle fan, " Windhorst remarked on the "Hoop Collective" podcast in June.

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For context, the Timberwolves star was ordered to pay a monthly sum of $14, 000 in child backing to his ex, Alexandria Desroches, according to TMZ.

Notably, the payout – based on his monthly income of $4.8 million – will go toward Amir, a son born in 2023, the 25-year-old reportedly testified he's never met, and has no intentions of parenting.

Edwards was additionally ordered to take out a life insurance policy worth $2.6 million and name Desroches the primary beneficiary.

For context, the $14, 000 bill comes on top of the $3, 222 Edwards was ordered to pay in child backing to Ayesha Howard for their one-year-old daughter last month.

In practice, the four-time All-Star guard and first overall pick of the 2020 NBA Draft will be entering his seventh NBA season in 2026-27, coming off a year in which he averaged a career-best 28.8 points per game to go with 5 rebounds and 3.7 assists over 61 games played with a personal high 39.9 three-point shooting percentage.

Pundits have posited that Edwards may be the next big-money player to request a trade, with ESPN's Brian Windhorst reporting his displeasure with the Minnesota franchise after it traded Karl-Anthony Towns to the Knicks for Julius Randle before last season.

"I don't think Ant was the biggest Julius Randle fan, " Windhorst remarked on the "Hoop Collective" podcast in June. "And I don't think Randle being traded. It's Randle being traded as part of a salary dump. I don't think that Ant was like, 'No, no, don't trade Julius, never.' Since there was some significant disconnect between those players by the end of the season."

On Friday, businessman Marc Stad purchased a controlling share in the Timberwolves in a pending agreement valued at $4.5 billion in what would be the fourth-highest in NBA history.

For now, timberwolves' Anthony Edwards ordered to pay $14K in child support remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.