{"id":563522,"date":"2026-04-04T05:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563522\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:22:06","slug":"former-bulldog-anthony-edwards-ineligible-for-nba-postseason-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563522\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bulldog Anthony Edwards ineligible for NBA postseason awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Anthony Edwards is ineligible for NBA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nba-awards-cunningham-injury-d43e0b531bd8ef1f65ab733e2f40d3a0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">postseason awards<\/a>\u00a0because he can&#8217;t reach the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nba-tanking-65-game-rule-adam-silver-89ca75f7bfbeb4946f0292e76cf7a080\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">65-game minimum<\/a>\u00a0after the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/minnesota-timberwolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a>\u00a0ruled out him out against the Detroit Pistons 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 due to his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/timberwolves-edwards-injury-6137ba24e297e7da89a42305e6795da0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">right knee<\/a>\u00a0ailment.<\/p>\n<p>Following Detroit&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/author\/larry-lage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">113-108 win<\/a>, Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said Edwards&#8217; illness is what kept him out of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time All-Star, and two-time all-league guard finished seventh in NBA MVP voting in each of the last two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards is averaging a career high with 29.3 points per game, 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 (AP) \u2014 Anthony Edwards is ineligible for NBA\u00a0postseason awards\u00a0because he can&#8217;t reach the\u00a065-game minimum\u00a0after the\u00a0Minnesota Timberwolves\u00a0ruled out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-563522","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\/563522","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=563522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}