"Anthony Edwards, he should have been eligible as well based on this, period." Stephen A Smith reacts to Anthony Edwards being denied post-season award eligibility, while Luka Doncic and Cade Cunningham were approved on extraordinary circumstances.

@KendrickPerkins @stephenasmith If cades collapsed lung qualifies then Ant foot infection should easily qualify over that

@stephenasmith Ant played 300 more minutes than Wemby. Ant played more minutes than duren, Chet, lebron, kawhi etc. It’s absolutely ridiculous

@stephenasmith This why the league shouldn't of approved nobody. 65 game rule should've been hard line

@stephenasmith Ant played 3 full less games. Not hard to figure out at all. But yeah I still think Ant should’ve been eligible but him n Cade situations were very obviously different.

@stephenasmith Cade injury was abnormal but it happened on the court ant injury was also abnormal (toe infection) that didn’t even happen on the court. By the nba logic ant has even more of a case than Cade does

@KendrickPerkins @stephenasmith What’s good for one, should be good for all…

@stephenasmith Ant cooking in isolation 👇:

@stephenasmith Luka also got suspended a game for techs...

@stephenasmith First it's for EXTRAORDINARY circumstances, which having your first child in another country and a collapsed lung are. And second, everybody in the comments complaining now was all for it when y'all thought Wemby or Jokic might not make it, now all of a sudden it's a bad thing 🤔

@stephenasmith NBA made Luka and Cade eligible, despite not meeting the criteria. Edwards should be angry. What even more egregious, in 2024 Donte DiVincenzo missed the criteria for MIP ballot by 9 seconds, yes 9 seconds. Despite playing 81 games 29mpg. The NBA and NBPA wouldn’t budge.

@stephenasmith Edwards played 62 games. That's the difference.

@stephenasmith just to make it make sende what these guy didnt mention cade and luka played 64 games anthony edwards played 61 games

@KendrickPerkins @stephenasmith Why are we pretending like leg injury is the same as collapsed lung lung and travelling to see the birth of your daughter

@stephenasmith It should be minutes 👍

@stephenasmith Or. Or. Realize that @NBA players aren't faking it. Teams really do want to play their best players. Instead of manufacturing a 65-game rule, eliminate back-to-backs and watch the best players play.

@stephenasmith And people don't think that Dallas getting Flagg wasn't rigged.🤣🤣

@stephenasmith Get rid of the rule - it didn't do what it was intended to do, which is stop load management, so just get rid of it and find a new way to do so

@stephenasmith David Stern we miss you r.i.p. the nba has gone into shambles

@stephenasmith The NBA

@stephenasmith 65 games for eligibility......zero excuses. PERIOD! Adam Silver is a joke.

@stephenasmith I’m with big perk Ant man deserves to be all NBA 💯 % Facts

@KendrickPerkins @stephenasmith None of them should’ve been eligible

@stephenasmith Cade played 65 games. Just didn’t meet the minutes requirement

@stephenasmith They need to factor games played AND total minutes played. Any player around 60+ games should be reviewed by the league to identify "rest days".

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Stephen A. yelling "he should have been eligible, PERIOD" like the NBA owes Ant a participation trophy 😂 Bro, the rule is 65 games. Luka dipped for baby duty, Cade's lung said "nah I'm out", those are wild cards. Ant just caught a foot infection and missed a few too many. Next up: "Extraordinary Circumstances" for every star who gets the sniffles? Just scrap the rule and call it the "Superstar Forgiveness Act" at this point.

@KendrickPerkins @stephenasmith It should be 60 games anyway to be eligible.

@KendrickPerkins @stephenasmith Yeah I don’t understand how his appeal wasn’t granted and Cade’s and Luka’s was

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@stephenasmith It’s incentivizing coming back early from injury because LeBron and co wanted to take days off for rest. It’s an atrocious rule.

@stephenasmith Facts!!!!

@stephenasmith “Based on this, period,” right. So the standard is consistency… or just exceptions?

@KendrickPerkins @stephenasmith this morons takes are worse than his eating habits. KENDRICK YOU A CLOWN.

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