{"id":488225,"date":"2026-02-18T16:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488225\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:11:13","slug":"kyrie-irving-wont-play-this-season-for-the-mavericks-as-he-continues-recovery-from-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488225\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving won&#8217;t play this season for the Mavericks as he continues recovery from knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">DALLAS (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/kyrie-irving-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyrie Irving<\/a> won&#8217;t play this season as the star guard for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/dallas-mavericks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> continues his recovery from a knee injury sustained almost a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The nine-time All-Star and the team made the announcement Wednesday, two days before the Mavericks return from the All-Star break. Dallas is on a nine-game losing streak, its longest in 28 years, and out of playoff contention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">\u201cThis decision wasn\u2019t easy, but it\u2019s the right one,\u201d Irving said in a statement released by the team. \u201cI am grateful for the Mavericks organization, my teammates and our fans for their continued support throughout the process. I am looking forward to coming back stronger next season. The belief and drive I have inside only grows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Irving tore the ACL in his left knee on March 3. This will be the first time in his 15-year career that he has missed an entire season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Kyrie Irving won&#8217;t play this season as the star guard for the Dallas Mavericks continues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,7235,13798,10109,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-488225","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-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-kyrie-irving","12":"tag-national-basketball-association","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488225","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=488225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}