Of course it’s working. Jokic who apparently doesn’t care about awards has played like 16 straight games after returning from injury. Kawhi is about to play another 65 game season and Wemby is out there instead of being load managed.

And these bozos weren’t crying about unfairness when Harden was left off the All-NBA teams after playing all 82 games and averging 29/6/8 lol.

I think the 65 game rule is working. The goal was to reduce load management and it has done that. There’s way less load management, but way more injuries.

Am I the only one that actually likes the cutoff game rule? Sure you can debate what the cutoff should be, it can arguably be 60 games or something. But I personally believe you have to play most of a season to be eligible for end of season awards/all nba teams. Injuries happen and they suck, but that’s just part of the game.

Nba players upset they have to play games.

NBA players crying because they have to be available for 80% of games is insane. Bunch of spoiled brats.

Silver finally getting his broken clock moment. Congratulations big dawg, you did it!

It should be hard to get these awards. Sometimes shit happens, oh well. You already have a fully guaranteed contract, that extra money isn’t supposed to be easy. In fact, making an exception robs whoever would have taken his place

Its working but the next thing we need are some changes that reduce the likelihood of players getting injured. This could include a reduction of games, the elimination of back-to-backs, etc.

One of the best things to come out of this extraterrestrial’s mouth

Yall would be extra toxic if your part-time coworkers won awards

The real fix is not having Max contracts tied to All NBA finishes. It doesn’t really make sense that a group of NBA writers get to decide how much money a player can potentially make.

Kind of feel like the problem isn’t JUST about Cade/ the player missing the cut. It’s potentially the guys who get moved up and as result qualify for super max when they don’t really deserve it. Once a guy qualifies, you can’t not give it to him without ruining the relationship.

So it’s like now you made two problems worse while trying to solve one.

I still haven’t seen a single piece of compelling evidence that the rule is anything but a great thing.

There may be something with injuries (I haven’t seen anyone bring any data up on it), but I would counter that the obvious solution is to extend the season a couple weeks and get rid of back to backs.

it’s fair and we ought to stand by it. it was fair when joel missed it, it is fair now if jokic, wemby, or cade misses it. we can’t pick and choose when to feel outraged.

Yeah, stand on business Adam.

tbh i think cades coming back to meet the threshold. we’re just yapping about hypotheticals like we did with jokic when he hyperextended his knee.

Keep the fucking rule don’t bitch out Silver. Fuck the players. How about us fans that pay big money to see them live but get ruled out over some bullshit. Now because it’s affecting THEIR pockets they are up in arms.

The only reasons this is kicking up such a fuss is because Cade is having a phenomenal season and for him to not be able to even receive awards for it due to an injury that took him out right before getting his 65th game sucks. The other is that he is one of the best hopes for an American MVP.

This rule was meant to punish players for load managing. Which Cade wasn’t doing and now he’s getting punished for a freak injury…

This injury happened because he played an easy game vs the wizards he could’ve easily sat out and still won. Instead he played and got a rare injury 2 minutes in. Which only like 4 players before him have had.

That’s why this rule needs some tweaking. Like others have said, have it be 65 games with a total minutes played considered for injury.

For reference Cade has played about 36 minutes a night besides blowouts. In total he has played 2,096 minutes in 61 games.

Cade possibly not getting a ALL NBA Team Selection after the season he’s had would be a travesty.

Silver’s logic makes sense in the abstract, one injured player doesn’t invalidate the whole rule’s intent — but it’s hard to look at Cade Cunningham missing award contention because of a collapsed lung and say the rule is working exactly as intended. The edge cases are the problem.

I do not like Adam Silver right now

Just do 2000 minutes instead of 65 games.

Yh icl fuck Cades 1st team selection the rule is the reason we’ve got to see stars play consistently and not load manage the fuck out the season.

Local NBA can get over not seeing a star play but international fans spend months saving and planning for these games, only for them to go out and watch a bunch of role players get some run

The rule should be tweaked. Make it a minutes requirement or something. The rule’s working, but jeez all top 4-5 of the mvp candidates looked at risk of missing the requirement this year, and theyve been playing their ass off. Not one of them was really “load managing” in a malicious way.

Yes the 65 game rule is helping to reduce load management, but at the same time it’s creating another problem - all nba selections not being representative of who the best players of the season actually are. Cade’s had an unbelievable season and it should be preserved in the history books imo

It never worked and is idiotic. Let the voters decide.

if there’s less load management and more injuries… who is winning here? Players are either going to sit to rest or benched for injury. Only one of those options has a predetermined future.

THIS RULE IS NOT WORKING.

Sorry Detriot not happening best give Cade his rest till playoffs or even after first round do under no stance rush him back just so he can get the 65 game ruling…would be so bad if he reinjured himself.

If this was in the 2022-23 season before the rule came in, Cade would be a lock for All-NBA. I think the rule change probably has encouraged players to play more, possibly to their own risk maybe. What’s happened is just really unlucky.

edit: my point being that if the rule didn’t exist, Cade would probably be All-NBA because he’s leading his team to number 1 in the East, I’m not saying that 22-23 Cade would be All-NBA calibre, he hardly played. Bit confused by the downvotes.

The issue isn’t the legitimate injuries. Jokic missed a month with a knee injury, but because he didn’t miss any games before the knee to load manage, & he hasn’t missed any games since coming back (i.e. you notice Jokic hasn’t sat out any b2bs for knee injury management since returning) Jokic is still eligible as of ³⁄₂₅. In Cades case, he missed 3 consecutive games in November to a real injury, & missed two consecutive games in Jan to a real injury. But Cade also missed a random game later in January & then missed a game March 7th vs BKN on the front end of a B2B, & he played the next night. So Cade had 7 missed games prior to the lung & the irony of it all is if he didn’t miss 2 games for what I consider load management, he would have been at 63 games which would actually have made him eligible for All NBA if he didn’t play another reg season game due to the lung. The crux of the issue is the load management games. I’m fine with guys missing multiple games consecutively because that’s a sign of a real injury. It’s the injury management & random missed games that are the issue.

Love the 65 game rule. Wish we did it sooner

You made a rule for like 5 players and the downstream effect is messing with more players in the league. No clue what about that is hard to understand. It’s not only a Cade thing

I think it’s fine but they need to address the schedule and possibly extend the season. Playing 4 games in 5 days or something is crazy especially when considering travel. I’d rather the season is longer so teams can play less back to backs or have a day after travel from one coast to another.

The callousness people are approaching this topic with is kind of insane. I feel so bad for Cade and the Pistons. Man gets drafted to a poverty franchise, they do the right thing and draft well, rebuild from a historically terrible season to top of the East, and their #1 pick that they actually hit on after getting skunked by the draft lottery several times has a random freak accident injury and now is getting no recognition for bringing winning basketball to a team that has been trash my entire life. Anybody dogging Cade is a lowlife bottom feeding loser. It’s just sad, whether you think the rule should change or not. The Pistons are just cursed, man.