{"id":184077,"date":"2025-10-02T03:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/184077\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:09:13","slug":"daniel-gafford-sprains-ankle-to-miss-time-for-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/184077\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Gafford sprains ankle, to miss time for Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Tim MacMahonOct 2, 2025, 12:35 PM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM<\/p>\n

BURNABY, British Columbia — Dallas Mavericks<\/a> center Daniel Gafford<\/a> will be sidelined for two to three weeks after spraining his ankle Tuesday during the opening practice of training camp, coach Jason Kidd said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

That puts Gafford’s availability for the Mavs’ Oct. 22 season opener against the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> in question.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

1 Related<\/p>\n

Gafford sat out the final two months of the Mavs’ injury-ravaged 2024-25 season after suffering a Grade 3 sprain of the MCL in his right knee on Feb. 10.<\/p>\n

Since arriving in Dallas before the 2023 trade deadline, Gafford has averaged 11.9 points on 72.7% shooting, 6.8 rebounds and 1.8 blocks while splitting the starting center role with Dereck Lively II<\/a>. He signed a three-year, $54 million contract extension this summer.<\/p>\n

P.J. Washington<\/a> also sat out Wednesday’s practice after bumping his head, but Kidd said the veteran forward could return following the team’s off day Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim MacMahonOct 2, 2025, 12:35 PM CloseJoined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears regularly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-184077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184077","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=184077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}