{"id":184197,"date":"2025-10-02T04:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/184197\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:29:10","slug":"reports-daniel-gafford-suffers-ankle-injury-will-miss-2-3-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/184197\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Daniel Gafford suffers ankle injury, will miss 2-3 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1854213\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1854213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Daniel-Gafford.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4983\" height=\"3326\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1854213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Gafford set to miss time after rolling ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Mavericks center Daniel Gafford suffered a sprained ankle on the first day of training camp, coach Jason Kidd told the media Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gafford will be sidelined for two to three weeks, according to Kidd. The Mavericks open their season vs. the Spurs on Oct. 22 (9:30 ET, ESPN).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mavs C Daniel Gafford rolled his ankle on the first day of camp and will miss 2-3 weeks, Jason Kidd said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim MacMahon (@BannedMacMahon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BannedMacMahon\/status\/1973567453990101228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gafford, who arrived in Dallas ahead of the 2023 trade deadline, has carved out a significant role for himself. Last season, he averaged 12.3 PPG, 6.8 RPG and 1.8 BPG.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He recently signed a three-year, $54 million contract extension this summer.<\/p>\n<p>NBA.com will have more on this developing story soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Gafford set to miss time after rolling ankle. Dallas Mavericks center Daniel Gafford suffered a sprained ankle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,92752,459,82],"class_list":["post-184197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-gafford-ankle-injury-miss-2-3-weeks","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}