{"id":694740,"date":"2026-04-02T22:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694740\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:17:14","slug":"anthony-edwards-ineligible-for-mvp-all-nba-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694740\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards ineligible for MVP, All-NBA voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/minnesota-timberwolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/players\/b76109c3\/anthony-edwards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Edwards<\/a> will be missing Thursday night&#8217;s game against the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, which means his team will be without its best player against the top team in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Another important note regarding Edwards&#8217; absence is that he&#8217;ll <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BrettSiegelNBA\/status\/2039823621036621975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">no longer be eligible<\/a> for the NBA Most Valuable Player award or selection to an All-NBA team in the 2025-26 campaign, per Brett Siegel of ClutchPoints.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnthony Edwards played only 3 minutes against Indiana in the third game of his season, which means he can only finish with 64 eligible games for awards. Sitting out tonight means Edwards WILL NOT QUALIFY for MVP or All-NBA status,\u201d wrote Siegel in a social media post on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>This story is being updated.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards will be missing Thursday night&#8217;s game against the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, which means his team will be without its best player against the top team in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards will be missing Thursday night&#8217;s game against the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[375,7,307,152,3954,6,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-694740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-minnesota","11":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","12":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-timberwolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116337432616747244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694740","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=694740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}