{"id":135714,"date":"2025-09-11T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/135714\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:24:10","slug":"mavs-anthony-davis-not-fully-back-on-the-court-amid-recovery-from-eye-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/135714\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs&#8217; Anthony Davis &#8216;Not Fully Back on the Court&#8217; amid Recovery from Eye Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Amid all the anticipation for Cooper Flagg&#8217;s rookie campaign, the Dallas Mavericks could be without a key contributor when they open the 2025-26 regular season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Appearing on the DLLS Mavs podcast, NBA insider Marc Stein reported Anthony Davis is &#8220;not fully back on the court yet&#8221; as he recovers from offseason eye surgery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Davis had\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25198807-anthony-davis-reportedly-has-surgery-eye-injury-expected-return-mavs-camp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">surgery<\/a>\u00a0in July to repair a detached retina, but the belief from the Mavs was he would be ready for the start of training camp. The injury occurred at some point last season and he was able to play through it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The club will open training camp on Sept. 29, with their first preseason game scheduled for Oct. 6 against the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Mavericks have a lot of injury concerns with training camp just over two weeks away. It&#8217;s already known that Kyrie Irving\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25186036-mavs-kyrie-irving-reportedly-expected-return-acl-tear-injury-january\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">won&#8217;t be ready until at least January<\/a>\u00a0after suffering a torn ACL during a game against the Sacramento Kings on March 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Dereck Lively II had\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25226359-mavs-dereck-lively-ii-undergoes-surgery-foot-injury-played-36-games-2024-25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">surgery<\/a>\u00a0for bone spurs in his right foot in July, but he is expected to be ready for the start of training camp. He only played 36 games last season due to foot issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Despite all of the turmoil around the Mavericks last season in the aftermath of the Luka Don\u010di\u0107\u00a0trade, things turned in their favor when they won the No. 1 pick in the lottery and used it to select Flagg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Flagg will be the centerpiece of everything the Mavs do, but their ceiling for the 2025-26 season will depend on the health of players like Davis and Irving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Davis only played in nine out of a possible 33 games with Dallas after being acquired from the Los Angeles Lakers in the Don\u010di\u0107 trade. He averaged 20.0 points, 10.1 rebounds and 4.4 assists per contest in those nine games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Mavericks will tipoff the 2025-26 regular season at home against the San Antonio Spurs on Oct. 22. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid all the anticipation for Cooper Flagg&#8217;s rookie campaign, the Dallas Mavericks could be without a key contributor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-135714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}