Anthony Edwards will not be playing Thursday. That also means he won\u2019t be winning any NBA honors after the season.<\/p>\n
The Minnesota Timberwolves guard became the latest NBA star to feel the bite of the league\u2019s controversial awards eligibility rules<\/a> on Thursday, when he was ruled out for the T-wolves\u2019 game against the Detroit Pistons with right knee pain and an illness<\/a>.<\/p>\n The absence will be his 17th of the season, making it impossible for him to reach the 65-game minimum to be eligible for All-NBA and MVP voting.<\/p>\n This article will be updated with more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards will not be playing Thursday. That also means he won\u2019t be winning any NBA honors after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[375,7,188,152,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-694784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","12":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116337538911328936","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694784","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=694784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}