{"id":561215,"date":"2026-04-03T01:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/561215\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:03:09","slug":"edwards-ineligible-for-nba-awards-after-wolves-rule-him-out-vs-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/561215\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards ineligible for NBA awards after Wolves rule him out vs. Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"a2edb458-a371-3fba-ba5a-b24dd2fd2d9e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4594268\/anthony-edwards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Edwards<\/a> is ineligible for NBA postseason awards because he can&#8217;t reach the 65-game minimum after the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"13f727cb-254d-b484-a337-93fcc0047add\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.sg\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-timberwolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> ruled him out against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4e096981-dc02-51d0-3dcd-2468fcc1e22d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.sg\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-pistons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> on Thursday night, listing his right knee injury and an illness.<\/p>\n<p>He has played in 59 games, but just 58 count toward the league&#8217;s record of games, and Minnesota has six games left in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards did not play in Detroit, one game after he scored 17 points in 23 minutes in a win over Dallas in his first game in two weeks. He returned against the Mavericks after missing six games because of his right knee ailment.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time All-Star and two-time all-league guard finished seventh in NBA MVP voting in each of the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards is averaging a career-high 29.3 points, but won&#8217;t play 70-plus games as he did in each of his first five seasons in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT &#8212; Anthony Edwards is ineligible for NBA postseason awards because he can&#8217;t reach the 65-game minimum after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-561215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}