{"id":581618,"date":"2026-04-02T23:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581618\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:02:08","slug":"timberwolves-edwards-out-vs-pistons-ineligible-for-end-of-season-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581618\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves&#8217; Edwards out vs. Pistons, ineligible for end-of-season awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 24-year-old guard needed to play in each of Minnesota&#8217;s seven remaining contests to reach the NBA&#8217;s 65-game threshold to remain eligible for end-of-season awards.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards has played in 59 games, but his 3 minutes, 8 seconds against Indiana on Oct. 26 don\u2019t count toward the NBA\u2019s records for games played.<\/p>\n<p>He returned from a six-game absence on Monday against the Dallas Mavericks, but was unable to stay in the lineup on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards scored 17 points playing 23 minutes in Minnesota&#8217;s win\u00a0over the Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>On the season, the four-time all-star is averaging 29.3 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.7 assists on 49.3 per cent shooting from the floor.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves, sixth in the Western Conference, are 10-6 in games that Edwards has missed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 with files from the Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 24-year-old guard needed to play in each of Minnesota&#8217;s seven remaining contests to reach the NBA&#8217;s 65-game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-581618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}