{"id":466919,"date":"2026-02-11T00:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466919\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:36:07","slug":"lebron-james-ruled-out-vs-spurs-ineligible-for-nba-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466919\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James ruled out vs. Spurs, ineligible for NBA awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/lebron-james\/0afbe608-940a-4d5d-a1f7-468718c67d91\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"0afbe608-940a-4d5d-a1f7-468718c67d91\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LeBron James<\/a>&#8216; injury-riddled season has led to the end of an impressive streak.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"los-angeles-lakers\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> ruled out James for Tuesday&#8217;s game against the San Antonio Spurs with left foot arthritis. This means that James will miss his 18th game this season and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LevAkabas\/status\/2021340214170669306\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LevAkabas\/status\/2021340214170669306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">won&#8217;t be eligible<\/a> for any NBA end-of-season awards. <\/p>\n<p>In order to qualify, a player has to play 65 games in a season. The maximum James can play now is 64. <\/p>\n<p>This will be the first time since 2004 that he won&#8217;t be featured on the All-NBA teams, ending a 21-year run. James also has the record for the most first-team selections with 13, two ahead of Kobe Bryant and Karl Malone.<\/p>\n<p>James did have one streak remain intact despite his injuries after earning a 22nd berth to the NBA All-Star Game. James was named as a reserve for the game after he was not voted in as a starter.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old is averaging 21.8 points, 6.9 assists, and 5.7 rebounds per game on 50.2 per cent shooting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James&#8216; injury-riddled season has led to the end of an impressive streak. The Los Angeles Lakers ruled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-466919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}