A rule intended to keep NBA superstars on the court may be keeping them from voters\u2019 All-NBA and other award ballots.<\/p>\n
The NBA\u2019s 65-game minimum to be eligible for awards like MVP, All-NBA, and others may keep some of the league\u2019s brightest starts from earning awards. Beyond recognition, those awards are also tied to contract bonus that can pay tens of millions of dollars more over the lives of the contracts.<\/p>\n
With a dozen or so games left in the season, at least a handful of these players – including Portland\u2019s own Deni Avidja – are perilously close to losing eligibility.<\/p>\n
While there\u2019s no question the strategic resting of stars has been a problem over the years, it\u2019s also true that one of the solutions to that problem (the 65-game minimum) will now keep players – who in good faith tried to play through injuries like Avdija or known for their durability like Jokic – from being eligible for awards they would otherwise earn.<\/p>\n
What do you think? Does the NBA need to tweak its awards eligibility requirements, or is this the expected and intended consequence of having tighter rules?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rule intended to keep NBA superstars on the court may be keeping them from voters\u2019 All-NBA and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,37660,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-668475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-blazers-news","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116260869558584321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}