{"id":403060,"date":"2026-01-10T00:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403060\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:17:07","slug":"mavericks-anthony-davis-suffers-ligament-damage-in-left-hand-could-reportedly-miss-a-number-of-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403060\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks’ Anthony Davis suffers ligament damage in left hand, could reportedly miss ‘a number of months’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Davis will miss more time, possibly even “a number of months,” according to ESPN’s Shams Charania and Tim MacMahon<\/a>, who reported Friday that the Dallas Mavericks standout center sustained ligament damage in his left hand during a Thursday night loss to the Utah Jazz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The length of Davis’ recovery will depend on the second opinion he receives. There’s a real chance the 10-time All-Star will be sidelined through the NBA’s Feb. 5 trade deadline and potentially beyond that day if surgery is required, per Charania<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Even if the 32-year-old Davis doesn’t have a procedure done, he’s expected to miss at least six weeks, according to ESPN’s report<\/a>. The Mavs later confirmed there was ligament damage in Davis’ hand and said they were evaluating their medical options.<\/p>\n

Davis has been considered a top trade target<\/a> for a while now<\/a>, although his latest setback could affect his value. Last season, he was part of one of the league’s most shocking deals ever<\/a> when the Los Angeles Lakers shipped him to Dallas as part of a three-team trade that delivered five-time All-NBA first-team guard Luka Don\u010di\u0107 to L.A.<\/p>\n

While Don\u010di\u0107 has become the face of the franchise Davis won a championship with during the 2020 season, Davis has had a turbulent experience with the Mavericks.<\/p>\n

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The big man has appeared in just 29 regular-season games, as well as two play-in games, since infamous Dallas general manager Nico Harrison acquired him last February.<\/p>\n

Following the trade, the former No. 1 overall pick was healing up from an abdominal injury. He hurried back and instantly starred with a dominant first half on Feb. 8 against the Houston Rockets, but an adductor strain related to the injury he was recovering from spoiled his night.<\/p>\n

He missed the next six weeks of action.<\/p>\n

Then, during an April 2 game versus the Atlanta Hawks, Mavericks teammate Daniel Gafford accidentally elbowed Davis in his right eye. The injury ultimately required offseason surgery to repair a detached retina<\/a>, and now Davis wears protective eyewear on the floor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Five games into this season, on Oct. 29 versus the Indiana Pacers, Davis suffered a left calf strain<\/a> that kept him out 14 games<\/a> after Mavericks owner Patrick Dumont reportedly delayed green-lighting the Kentucky product’s return<\/a> until the team had medical data indicating Davis wasn’t at risk of aggravating the injury. Along the way, Harrison was fired<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Davis came back in late November, only to then exit the Mavs’ Christmas Day game against the Golden State Warriors with right-groin spasms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Davis was back in the lineup on New Year’s Day, however, he picked up his hand injury a week later while defending Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen on a baseline drive Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Injuries have been a thorn in Davis’ side throughout his career, which started with New Orleans in 2012, continued in Los Angeles and has practically gone dormant in Dallas.<\/p>\n

Davis is due $58.5 million next season, per ESPN, which reported that he has a player option for $62.8 million in 2027-28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Davis will miss more time, possibly even “a number of months,” according to ESPN’s Shams Charania and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[16107,7218,64,63,213981,7235,133338,794,5552,25821,7220,7221,32207,213980,481,7232,11473,18085,590,25466,3879,85,11898],"class_list":["post-403060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-anthony-davis","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chris-gardner","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-daniel-gafford","tag-espn","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-hand-injury","tag-houston-rockets","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-lauri-markkanen","tag-ligament-damage","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-mavs","tag-nba","tag-nba-trade-deadline","tag-new-orleans","tag-sports","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403060","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=403060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}