They should do it. Everybody would understand. Both of those guys deserve first team

Cade is already out. His and Lukas only eligibility play is via a grievance

And Chet getting Dpoy because of 20 min would be a huge FU to everyone who watched NBA this year.

So I guess it’s okay if they both do it everyone would understand.

4/5th options on offense although for Wemby the worst he could be on defense is the second or third best player on that end. 

I’d fuck with that

Luka too

The league ended up expediting the creation of award-padding

Cade absolutely should, they’ve wrapped up the 1 seed with no shot to catch the west leader

The Lakers vs Jazz game to end the season has a chance to be the worst game in history. The Jazz are openly tanking, and the Lakers might play Luka and just have him stand in the corner for 20 minutes.

Would be so funny.

When the last few games don’t matter for seeding just play 4v5 every defensive possession and let him pop corner 3s

Hold on, you would rather players be able to sit out games for rest without any implications on their eligibility for awards rather than see them actually work for the millions they are getting paid? And this is the highest upvoted comment in this thread. The world truly has gone utterly insane.

The players collectively bargained this.

He wanted 60 wins, he got 60 wins. He proved himself this season; let him rest, come in for one game, get his trophy(s), and get ready for the playoffs

He could stand halfway in the paint toe tapping every 3 seconds and have more defensive impact than most players

Like the Dillon Brooks stare at center court

Like Andrew Bynum in that NBA video game, arms out frozen at half-court:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VPwcYWDNIQ

corner 3 specialist

It would be a nice middle finger to Adam.

(Mr. Silver is a man who deserves more middle fingers. (And hair. (I may think he’s not a good commissioner, but I’m still human.)))

I do think that cherry picking should be a bigger thing in the NBA now that offenses have gotten so good. Just let him stand below the opponents rim, and any missed shot the other team has, is an automatic bucket for them.

Dallas would make sense, or a little playoff tune-up against Denver for a half then another week off after that game. Either way, there was zero reason to push it against Portland

Could be a 4D chess move to have the chance of playing us instead of Clippers or Suns in the playoffs too

He’ll get there, don’t worry lol

You want him to make 1st team for his accolades I want him to get all nba just so the Spurs will waste more cap space.

It’s even worse when you see who will be taking his DPOY… league would be even more fucked next year.

Maybe that’s what it’ll take to scrap this dumb rule

They should have him check in and just stand somewhere not involved for 20 minutes just to show how stupid the rule is lol

If that happened there would be no 65 game rule anymore. I definitely hope it doesn’t though he’s having a career year and he deserves the awards for it

Go cry in a corner, bro is getting tens of millions to put a ball into a hoop, he should play every damn game he is able to, if he is injured then too bad, do something more to try and prevent your high injury occurrence.

His inability to play 80% of the games is ruining his legacy.

The rule sucks but he will likely get 65 on the dot based on this Shams report.

Without the 65 game rule he would’ve taken alot more games off and fans would’ve had fewer chanses to see him play. 

He just needs one more game. Cup Final counts so he’s at 65, but I still don’t really like the rule.

Only if the season gets shortened to 72-75 games

Because soon people are going to want to start crowning dudes MVPs and first team All-NBAs playing 56 games in an 82 game regular season.

Just 1 game is needed. He gets credit for the Cup Final .

Only needs to play 1 more, nba cup counts as game played but doesnt show up

He only needs to play 1.. the nba cup final counts as an extra

He’ll be fine. If it was a bad enough contusion that he wouldn’t be able to make at least one of the remaining games, he would probably have not been listed as doubtful for tonight to begin with. You guys are basically set for the second seed, just rest him a few days and he can show up in one game for exactly 20 minutes and then sub out. No harm no foul

another wrinkle of the rule is IIRC you can count games where you played at least 15 minutes if you played 65+ games and had at least 62 with 20 minutes played

There’s 3 game left dude lol

He played an extra game due to the NBA cup final which counts toward the minimum.