{"id":711845,"date":"2026-04-16T15:51:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/711845\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:51:31","slug":"luka-doncic-cade-cunningham-will-be-eligible-for-nba-awards-after-league-union-rule-on-challenge-to-65-game-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/711845\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107, Cade Cunningham will be eligible for NBA awards after league, union rule on challenge to 65-game rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lakers\u2019 Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Pistons\u2019 Cade Cunningham will be eligible for 2026 NBA awards after the league and players union ruled in their favor on their Extraordinary Circumstances Challenges, according to the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards, who dealt with injuries this season, also filed a challenge to the 65-game rule, but his case was denied by an independent arbitrator.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u010di\u0107 missed two games for the birth of his second child in December, and since dealt with injuries that saw him miss 11 more games, including the end of the regular season <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/breaking-news\/article\/lakers-star-luka-doncic-to-miss-remainder-of-regular-season-with-hamstring-strain-will-challenge-nbas-65-game-minimum-for-awards-eligibility-220140014.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:with a hamstring strain;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;with a hamstring strain&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\">with a hamstring strain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham was sidelined with a collapsed lung in mid-March. He missed 11 games and returned on April 8.<\/p>\n<p>This breaking news story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers\u2019 Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Pistons\u2019 Cade Cunningham will be eligible for 2026 NBA awards after the league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[375,7,909,28651,368,152,6,2059,88799,2152,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-711845","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-cade-cunningham","11":"tag-extraordinary-circumstances","12":"tag-luka-doncic","13":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-communications","16":"tag-players-union","17":"tag-the-lakers","18":"tag-the-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116415187073968919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711845","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=711845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}