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Tim MacMahonNov 1, 2025, 08:16 AM<\/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 Dallas Mavericks<\/a> star power forward\/center Anthony Davis<\/a> will miss at least two games after an MRI revealed a low grade left calf strain, the team announced Friday evening.<\/p>\n Davis will be re-evaluated after the Mavericks’ return from a road trip to Mexico City, where they will play the Detroit Pistons<\/a> and the Houston Rockets<\/a>.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks The 32-year-old sustained the injury<\/a> in the first quarter of Wednesday’s game against the Indiana Pacers<\/a>.<\/p>\n Davis, a 10-time All-Star, had been listed as probable before that game due to bilateral Achilles tendinopathy. He has averaged 20.8 points and 10.2 rebounds during Dallas’ 2-3 start.<\/p>\n “A.D. is day-to-day,” Kidd said before Friday’s practice at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico without getting into specifics. Davis traveled with the team and attended practice ahead of Saturday’s game against the Pistons.<\/p>\n Davis, a 10-time All-Star, has been plagued by injuries throughout his career. Last season, after been traded from Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> for Luka Doncic<\/a>, he got injured<\/a> and missed 18 games and returned for the final eight games of the season as the Mavericks missed the playoffs.<\/p>\n “It is going to be day to day,” said Davis. “But I feel better that is for sure.”<\/p>\n Mavs center Dereck Lively II<\/a> (knee sprain) will miss his third straight game against the Pistons. Center Daniel Gafford<\/a> (ankle sprain) has been upgraded to questionable after missing the first five games.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim MacMahonNov 1, 2025, 08:16 AM CloseJoined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears regularly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-256547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256547","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=256547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/nba_mavs_turn_page_1x1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\"){kind=spacer}
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