{"id":489031,"date":"2026-03-20T22:47:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=489031"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:47:01","slug":"cade-cunningham-could-miss-all-nba-with-nearly-50-million-at-stake-for-the-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cade-cunningham-could-miss-all-nba-with-nearly-50-million-at-stake-for-the-pistons\/","title":{"rendered":"Cade Cunningham could miss All-NBA, with nearly $50 million at stake for the Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1521\" data-end=\"1794\"><strong data-start=\"1521\" data-end=\"1542\">Cade Cunningham\u2019s<\/strong> injury, a collapsed lung suffered after colliding with Tre Johnson, could cost him eligibility for NBA end-of-season awards. The <strong data-start=\"1672\" data-end=\"1691\">Detroit Pistons<\/strong> star is still four games away from the 65-game threshold required to qualify for the <strong data-start=\"1777\" data-end=\"1793\">All-NBA Team<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1796\" data-end=\"2057\">If Cunningham fails to reach that mark, the situation could benefit <strong data-start=\"1864\" data-end=\"1879\">Jalen Duren<\/strong>, who is seen as a borderline All-NBA candidate. With the award now positionless, Cunningham\u2019s ineligibility could open one of the 15 available spots and improve Duren\u2019s chances.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2059\" data-end=\"2334\">For the <strong data-start=\"2067\" data-end=\"2078\">Pistons<\/strong>, the financial impact could be massive: if Duren makes an All-NBA team, he would become eligible for a max contract starting at 30% of the cap instead of 25%. According to the projections cited, the gap between those two deals is close to <strong data-start=\"2318\" data-end=\"2333\">$50 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2336\" data-end=\"2365\"><em data-start=\"2336\" data-end=\"2365\">Source: Front Office Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cade Cunningham\u2019s collapsed lung may affect not only Detroit\u2019s season, but also the future contract outlook for Jalen Duren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-489031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Detroit-Pistons.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489031"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=489031"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=489031"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=489031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}