Meet the college basketball star who is Anthony Edwards’ doppelgänger | Sporting News

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There's a video going viral on social media of a basketball player wearing No. 5 and smoking a defense for a huge dunk. It's Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards, right? Wrong.

Somehow, the young man in the video below that looks so much like Edwards is not actually Edwards. Here, have a watch for yourself. Baylor commit Tounde Yessoufou is a freak athlete 😳 @ToundeYessoufou @nikehoopsummit pic.



twitter.com/wUPrieIxM9 That's actually Baylor commit Tounde Yessoufou. Yessoufou is a four-star recruit out of Santa Maria, California, who 247Sports ranks as the No.

17 player in the Class of 2025. Follow The Sporting News on WhatsApp He's listed at 6-foot-6, 210 pounds (Edwards is listed at 6-4, 225). Yessoufou is originally from the African nation of Benin.

He literally broke the backboard in his first-ever high school game. Maybe he is Edwards after all, just the next coming. MORE NBA NEWS: Mac McClung is putting up video-game numbers in G League playoffs The best Devin Booker-Kevin Durant trade proposal Knicks get update on Giannis Antetokounmpo trade chance Nuggets' Jalen Pickett is new coach's solution to Russell Westbrook problem Clippers' Kawhi Leonard should have the NBA scared Suns' Kevin Durant, Devin Booker get one final insult.