{"id":339853,"date":"2025-12-10T17:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339853\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:22:07","slug":"mavericks-dereck-lively-ii-to-have-season-ending-foot-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339853\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks&#8217; Dereck Lively II to have season-ending foot surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f00d1f4e-4ce6-d581-466c-5b52531cf7ad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-mavericks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> center <a data-player-guid=\"a0268e7a-137e-3749-b75c-bedefd1177e4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4683688\/dereck-lively-ii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dereck Lively II<\/a> will undergo season-ending surgery on his right foot to address lingering discomfort, the team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lively, who played seven games this season, is expected to make a full recovery and be available for the start of training camp.<\/p>\n<p>He underwent surgery on the foot in July to clean out bone spurs. He missed more than two months last season due to a stress fracture in his right ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Lively missed nine games earlier this season due to a sprained right knee, returning Nov. 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks center Dereck Lively II will undergo season-ending surgery on his right foot to address lingering discomfort,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-339853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339853","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=339853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}