{"id":373688,"date":"2025-12-26T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373688\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T20:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:35:08","slug":"sources-mavs-davis-has-minor-groin-strain-out-a-few-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373688\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Mavs’ Davis has minor groin strain, out a few games"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim MacMahonDec 27, 2025, 05:20 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 Anthony Davis<\/a> has sustained a minor groin strain and is expected to miss a few games, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania on Friday.<\/p>\n

Davis, a significant trade target, will be evaluated daily. The Mavericks have taken a cautious approach with injuries, specifically for Davis this season, and will continue to do so.<\/p>\n

Davis suffered this injury with 8:50 remaining in the second quarter of the Mavericks’ 126-116 Christmas Day loss<\/a> to the Golden State Warriors<\/a>. He pulled up after attempting to sprint to catch a hit-ahead pass in transition and immediately limped to the bench, asking for a substitution.<\/p>\n

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He was ruled out at halftime due to right groin spasms.<\/p>\n

Davis, 32, has dealt with a series of muscle strains since arriving in Dallas in February as the headliner in the return of the controversial Luka Doncic<\/a> trade.<\/p>\n

Davis, who was recovering from an abdominal strain at the time of the trade, suffered a related adductor strain in his Dallas debut. That injury sidelined him for 18 games. He missed 14 games earlier this season due to a left calf strain.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are 8-8 with Davis in the lineup this season and 4-12 when he does not play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim MacMahonDec 27, 2025, 05:20 AM CloseJoined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears regularly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-373688","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\/373688","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=373688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}