{"id":491054,"date":"2026-04-03T08:50:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=491054"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:50:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:50:49","slug":"anthony-edwards-ruled-out-of-nba-awards-race-after-wolves-scratch-him-vs-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/anthony-edwards-ruled-out-of-nba-awards-race-after-wolves-scratch-him-vs-pistons\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards ruled out of NBA awards race after Wolves scratch him vs. Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1834\" data-end=\"2164\"><strong data-start=\"1834\" data-end=\"1853\">Anthony Edwards<\/strong> is officially out of the running for NBA postseason awards. The <strong data-start=\"1918\" data-end=\"1944\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/strong> ruled him out against the <strong data-start=\"1971\" data-end=\"1990\">Detroit Pistons<\/strong>, and with only six regular-season games left, he can no longer reach the 65-game threshold required for honors such as MVP and All-NBA.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2166\" data-end=\"2470\">Minnesota listed <strong data-start=\"2183\" data-end=\"2204\">right knee injury<\/strong> and illness on the report, but after the 113-108 loss, coach <strong data-start=\"2266\" data-end=\"2281\">Chris Finch<\/strong> said the illness was what kept Edwards out. The four-time All-Star had just returned against Dallas after missing six games because of his knee issue.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2472\" data-end=\"2807\">It is still a major statistical season for Edwards, who is averaging a career-high <strong data-start=\"2555\" data-end=\"2579\">29.3 points per game<\/strong>, but he will not be eligible for the league\u2019s main individual awards. The setback also ends another possible run in the MVP conversation after two straight seventh-place finishes in voting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Timberwolves star can no longer reach the 65-game minimum after being ruled out against the Detroit Pistons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371773,"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":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-491054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Minnesota-Timberwolves.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491054","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=491054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491054"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=491054"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=491054"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=491054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}