{"id":395543,"date":"2026-04-16T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395543\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:08:09","slug":"cade-cunningham-luka-doncic-ruled-eligible-for-2025-26-nba-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395543\/","title":{"rendered":"Cade Cunningham, Luka Don\u010di\u0107 ruled eligible for 2025-26 NBA awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2164083\" class=\"wp-image-2164083 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/doncic-cunningham-split.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2164083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pistons star Cade Cunningham (right) and Lakers star Luka Don\u010di\u0107 are both eligible to contend for annual awards this season.<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014\u00a0The NBA and National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) have agreed, in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), that Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham and Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Don\u010di\u0107 are eligible for all annual awards for the 2025-26 NBA regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham played in 63 qualified games due in part to missing 12 games as a result of a collapsed lung that was diagnosed on March 17. \u00a0Don\u010di\u0107 played in 64 qualified games due in part to missing two games to attend the birth of his daughter in Slovenia. The NBA and NBPA agreed that, taking into account the totality of the circumstances for Cunningham and Don\u010di\u0107, each player qualified for awards under the extraordinary circumstances provision in the CBA.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards, who played in 60 qualified games, filed an extraordinary circumstances challenge under the CBA, seeking award eligibility before an independent arbitrator.\u00a0 Edwards\u2019 challenge was denied and, as a result, he is not eligible for annual awards for the 2025-26 NBA regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pistons star Cade Cunningham (right) and Lakers star Luka Don\u010di\u0107 are both eligible to contend for annual awards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[187855,85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-395543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-doncic-cunningham-awards","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}