Anthony Edwards has never been one to turn away from stirring the pot or talking trash, but his latest commercial with Adidas has taken trash-talking to another level. 

The commercial, featuring the Adidas Anthony Edwards 2's, features Edwards playing a basketball video game with several bosses with suspicious resemblances to some of his fellow NBA stars. 

It appears that Victor Wembanyama, Nikola Jokic and Luka Doncic were all targets of Edwards' new commercial, with some references more flattering than others.

Wembanyama was depicted as an alien in reference to the French superstar's nickname, Jokic was riding a horse and the avatar widely speculated to represent Doncic appeared at the end of the video with "late-game fatigue," a possible shot at Doncic's much decried conditioning.

The commercial ends with Edwards confidently declaring that he's the "top dog" and the other stars can't measure up to him. When Edwards attended All-Star weekend with many of these same stars, he was prepared to stand for the shots his commercial took and he was even excited to be able to make such an attention-grabbing piece.

"Super excited. It's always good to get the juices flowing. I don't think nobody is going to talk as much trash as me, so it's fine," Edwards said during All-Star media day. 

That kind of commercial was sure to up the competitive energy during the All-Star festivities, something the league would love to see given all of the anxiety around trying to shake up the All-Star format to bring excitement back to the event, and that sort of trash-talking is in line with the spirt of the NBA that makes the game so fun.

Few other sports give the athletes so many opportunities to be face-to-face during the competition and as a result trash-talk is baked into the DNA of the game, with players constantly trying to get into each other's heads and hype themselves up in the process. 

By Edwards' own admission, he's one of the biggest trash-talkers in the league, and he has the talent to back it up. 

He's one of the most exciting young players in the NBA, the face of the Minnesota Timberwolves and he's having the best season of his career so far with an average of 29.3 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game while shooting 49.3% from the field and 40.2% from three point range. 

Edwards' commercial might have stirred up some tension or it may not have, but one thing is clear: if there was a fight, Edwards wasn't going to shy away from it.