{"id":695192,"date":"2026-04-03T03:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695192\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:27:24","slug":"edwards-ineligible-for-nba-postseason-awards-after-timberwolves-rule-him-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695192\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards ineligible for NBA postseason awards after Timberwolves rule him out"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Anthony Edwards is ineligible for NBA postseason awards<\/a> because he can\u2019t reach the 65-game minimum<\/a> after the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> ruled out him out against the Detroit Pistons on Thursday night, listing his right knee injury and an illness.<\/p>\n

He has played in 59 games, but just 58 count toward the league\u2019s record of games and Minnesota has six games left in the regular season.<\/p>\n

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 right knee<\/a> ailment.<\/p>\n

Following Detroit\u2019s 113-108 win<\/a>, Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said Edwards\u2019 illness is what kept him out of the game.<\/p>\n

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

Edwards is averaging a career high with 29.3 points per game, but won\u2019t play 70-plus games as he did in each of his first five seasons in the league. <\/p>\n

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AP NBA: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Anthony Edwards is ineligible for NBA postseason awards because he can\u2019t reach the 65-game minimum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[375,7,2026,188,584,1739,307,152,577,6,446,11,33313,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-695192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-chris-finch","11":"tag-detroit-pistons","12":"tag-mi-state-wire","13":"tag-michigan","14":"tag-minnesota","15":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","16":"tag-mn-state-wire","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nba-basketball","19":"tag-nba-playoffs","20":"tag-pain-management","21":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116338651537750332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695192","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=695192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}