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<\/p>\nByShams Charania <\/p>\n
Thursday, April 16, 2026 4:25PM<\/p>\n
Lakers<\/a> star Luka Doncic<\/a> and Pistons<\/a> standoutCade Cunningham<\/a> are eligible for all 2025-26 season awards, including MVP and All-NBA teams, after their extraordinary circumstances challenge of the 65-game rule was approved by the NBA and NBPA on Thursday.<\/p>\n Doncic, who finished with 64 games during the regular season, missed two games in December because of the birth of his child abroad.<\/p>\n Cunningham, who played in 63 games, missed 12 games with a collapsed lung.<\/p>\n Minnesota<\/a>‘s Anthony Edwards<\/a>, who appeared in 60 games, filed a challenge as well. His case was advanced to an independent arbitrator, but his challenge was denied and he is not eligible for awards.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByShams Charania Thursday, April 16, 2026 4:25PM Lakers star Luka Doncic and Pistons standoutCade Cunningham are eligible for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[117721,117719,7017,14907,117720,750,112,114,113,2497,16138,129,100],"class_list":{"0":"post-271003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-117721","9":"tag-cunningham-cade","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-doncic-luka","12":"tag-edwards-anthony","13":"tag-espn","14":"tag-fresno","15":"tag-fresno-headlines","16":"tag-fresno-news","17":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","18":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}