Tyrese was the league leader in total points not that long ago. Now he’s in danger of missing out all nba :(

Let me get this straight.

SGA plays 65 games and gets MVP.

SGA plays 64 games and gets to be completely left out of the ballot. Exception got denied. They don’t wanna open the can of worms.

Tell me why this makes sense.

Sucks for Tyrese, he had a terrific season. Voters should be allowed to think for themselves if 61 games were enough. Whether his 61 were better than someone else’s 65.

I’ve thought counting stats should be the standard in the NBA for a long time and it’s now more relevant than ever.

I think the NBA is the only league that has EVERYTHING based on per game averages and it’s silly. You wouldn’t need to pick arbitrary number of games played. Just look at the total numbers and it paints a better picture of stats and availability.

Wemby is a great example. If he averaged 4 blocks per game and only played 50 games, that’s still 200 blocks. If the second best player had 2 blocks per game and played 80 games, that’s 160.

We could easily see someone like Jalen Johnson make first team all-nba with a handful of more relatively minor injuries and people are still defending this lol. 

I think ultimately they’re going to have to make some rule saying that only absences of 5 consecutive games or less count against you (that way if you have a bona fide injury your eligibility remains and they get rid of the selective game or two here game or two there thing)

Hopefully he gets back on the court, and the rule itself is and has always been dumb and should be abolished.

Having said that you can’t change shit in the middle of the season. That’s crazy.

Honestly I’m so tired of hearing this. It sucks when players miss out on awards, especially if it’s not by much. And it sucks that we know 56-63 games of an All NBA first team caliber player is better than 73 games of a borderline All NBA player. But at the end of the day the entire point of the rule was to help curb load management and unnecessary player rest because it had become a real problem. I don’t know if the rule works well enough for that purpose, but outside of shortening the season I’m fine with players needing to play a certain amount of games to qualify. Whether it’s 65 or 60 I don’t care. Doesn’t change the point and people would make the same argument if SGA played 58 games and the guy replacing him was like…Austin Reaves playing 68-72 games.

At a certain point you’ve just missed too many games. Arbitrary but reasonable.

How many guys have played less than 65 games and still made all-NBA before the rule? Most voters used to take into account games played anyway

I mean if a guy plays 50 games and voters think he did enough for a first team all nba why can’t they vote for him? Why is there a threshold for games played?

That’s too bad, hopefully he can make it back to qualify.

Only Nick Nurse plays his guys almost 40 minutes a game during the regular season

Somehow in the near future, they’ll gonna throw this out because the wrong people will wind up with awards

As someone who is now being affected by the rule, I still agree with the rule. It sucks how it messes with guys getting paid and messing with the history books, but you should be able to play 65 games. Sometimes your body fails you or someone hurts you(intentionally or unintentionally), but 65 is a solid number. And people are saying “well if he plays 64 instead of 65 that means he shouldn’t be eligible?) yes, you’d have this with any number of games you set. I’d be okay with 60 if you want to get to a solid number. But any less than that is hard to justify. Feels like the bare minimum to ask of players

Why is the threshold for a season ending injury only 3 games less than the normal threshold? If you’re going to make an exemption at least make it meaningful like 60 or 55 games

Unlucky.

It seems like there is so so many good players that are right on the cusp of games played. I could see the league lowering the games to 60 some time soon

He’ll be back in a couple days, chill.

He’s out for the rest of this month, but the 6ers play 7 games in April. He should make the last 4 games from 7-13 Apr.

Unless, of course, the injury was much worse than first thought, forcing him to miss more time.

All-NBA teams gonna look weird af this year

At this point they should just make it 60 games minimum or even lower.

It’s all fun and games when we make the rule specifically to exclude Embiid, but not so fun now is it r/nba 🤔

I don’t give a shit about the cutoff being an arbitrary number. This rule needs to stay.

Players sitting out for “rest days” and shit like calf bruises and forearm contusions is ridiculous. Players used to play 70+ games a season year in year out with no difference in the amount of major injuries. Players today are simply lazy and entitled and need to be incentivized to give a shit about the product.

Literally don’t even bother to tune into NBA games in the regular season because 90% of the time 2+ essential players are on the bench with nonsense “injuries”. I don’t care that the players “run more” in the modern game, that is quite literally the least physically exerting aspect of sport when it comes to injury.

Load management and pseudo injury reporting need to change. The NBA product is tanking and no one gives a shit about the regular season. 5 years ago, highlights on this sub gained so much traction, now they don’t even exist for the most part. All we talk about is the legacy of past players. No one fucking cares anymore.

Yeah it fucks over some players that get real injuries, but thats the price you pay when the entirety of the league has began to treat the game as insignificant.