I think it’s just more of a 1 game is easier to approve than 4. At that point you just get rid of the rule. But the NBA does not want to do that so ANT just gets the short end of the stick

Its 100% because cade was on 64 like luka. 61 is pushing it a lot more at that point

I think it’s because Cade was just asking for the game he got hurt in to count, which I feel like is valid

Ant only played 60 eligible games (3 minutes is too low). Much harder argument.

the rule is literally that you can apply if you played 62-64 games. Edwards did not play that many games

Everything about this situation makes me believe the 65 game requirement is gonna be removed for All-NBA teams.

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Nuggets fans want him approved so he doesn’t average 45/7/6 on 60% TS in the playoffs as retaliation

Yeah ant also didn’t play games where he could’ve for “injury management”

If you are load managing and have 4 games to go they don’t allow it to count… but if you miss a couple games for the birth of your kid or you have a collapsed lung they will allow it

They are gonna tweak the rule for sure going forward and have it be games or minutes. Also probably that the 3rd team all nba has exceptions

The point of the rule is so audiences going to games get to see the star players, NBA would rather have Ant play 20 minutes of 2 games than play 40 in one and sit another.

The point of the rule is players suiting up for games so that fans can see them

1625 minutes is absurd. A heavy minutes player would be all-nba eligible in like 45 games. Thibs’ whole starting 5 would be all-nba eligible by New Years. That number has to be at least 2000

Because the players agreed to this rule.

1,950 minutes for an average of 30 mins

Everybody talks about Wemby, but Spurs has so many games entering gabage time at end of 3rd quarter. They can remove the restriction for 3rd team all nba, but if they add mins exception, there will be all star players padding mins stats early in the season which is not good.

The league won’t, because the league implemented the rule to encourage players to play in more games.

So, he didn’t hit that 62 game hard threshold.

He hits the 62 because of a 3 minutes game that goes under an exception that’s why he applied

Just FYI, 62 games is 75% not 85%

everyone’s acting like Adam just decides what happens, but I’m going to point out that this rule is a CBA provision, and this was decided by grievance procedure and arbitration by a neutral arbitrator. And it sounds like maybe it settled by agreement between the NBA and NBPA? That’s probably why it got done so quickly.

In other words, the NBA and the NBPA agreed on this outcome

Adam is running the league on vibes and ads

Man you can’t force a extraordinary circumstance in da world

Luka and Cade reached 64 games and would’ve easily gotten 65 if it wasn’t for injury. It’s harder to justify 5 missed games for ANT.

Isn’t that what they’re doing?

noted big market detroit pistons

It was 10x easier to litigate the twolves cap circumvention because Glen Taylor was dumb enough to put it in explicit writing. The league is a joke but that isn’t why

Pistons aren’t exactly a big market team. Around the same size as the Timberwolves.

If Ant goes super saiyan and knocks us out, tip of the hat to him

He couldn’t have seriously thought his appeal would work. He will be fired up regardless because he has that dawg in him

No kidding, Ant’s gonna be pissed

“Such and such was all-nba for 9 straight years, what’s Ants excuse?!”

The cut off always included a vague exception

I think it’s fine having exceptions.

I just don’t get how Cade qualifies for the exception since it wasn’t a regular season ending injury like we first feared.

1 game vs 5

Vibes and such

I reckon Ant’s case was a lost cause because he returned from the injury and then still sat out the last few games to rest for the playoffs. Had he played all of those games to end the season then maybe he would’ve got it too, but sitting out for rest purposes because your team is locked to a seed pretty much lost the appeal before it was even considered.

But Cade missed it by just 1 game, Ant missed it by 4 plus he had a game where he had only 3 minutes

lol wtf?

Make up the rules as you go yeah?

They should move from a games requirement to a minutes requirement.

Send da appeal

I mean he missed 4 games and not 1 till 65

This was resolved by a grievance and arbitration by a neutral arbitrator, and sounds like it may have been settled by agreement between the NBA and NBPA, which is how it got done so fast. So, it’s not just Adam sitting in his office deciding what happens. This is a CBA term.

Decision is clearly not his, but let’s spew bullshit. I see.

I don’t see why people keep citing minutes as a thing, this rule was set in place to ensure these guys are playing games and fans get to see them in their arenas. Whether they play 5 or 40 mins is irrelevant 

Ig its because Cade played 63 whereas Ant played 61.

1 game vs 4

Cade played 35 more minutes this season, he just deserves it more

Cade missed 1 game, the other missed 4. Just 1 game is easier to accept, but if they are accepting 4, then might as well cancel the rule because another guy will have 58 and they’ll be like “well if Ant is ok at 61, why not me at 58?” Also they have some rules mentioning if you played 62+, 80% of the games or whatever, that might have factored in

The ridiculous things is that it is actually needed to try to get players with 9 figure contracts to play basketball to actually play in games.

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64 > 61

Cade came back and played to end the season even though his teams place was locked in but ant just rested to end the season

Ant with 4 games off the 65 cutoff and both Cade/Luka just one. One isn’t the same as the other two.

The league hates him just look at his whistle

Fans love Ant but the NBA sure doesn’t

Cade played 35 more minutes and he got an injury exception, the 65-game thing clearly isn’t a hard limit

Because it’s not like Ant load managed he tried to play one game and limped all the way up and down the court