{"id":306645,"date":"2025-11-25T20:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/306645\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:39:08","slug":"oft-injured-dereck-lively-ii-faces-another-extended-absence-with-dallas-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/306645\/","title":{"rendered":"Oft-injured Dereck Lively II faces another extended absence with Dallas Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"

DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Dallas Mavericks<\/a> center Dereck Lively II<\/a> will miss at least the next three games and likely more as he is evaluated for swelling and discomfort in his right foot.<\/p>\n

The oft-injured former Duke player has been limited to seven games following offseason foot surgery and a knee issue this season. The team said Tuesday it would provide a further timeline on Lively\u2019s possible return in seven to 10 days.<\/p>\n

Lively was plagued by injuries in his first two seasons as well. The 21-year-old played in 55 games as a rookie, when the Mavericks reached the NBA Finals before losing to Boston in five games. He played just 36 games last season dealing mostly with a stress fracture in his foot.<\/p>\n

The loss of Lively comes with the Mavericks awaiting the return of forward Anthony Davis<\/a> from a calf strain. Davis has missed the past 14 games. He also was out a month last season after getting injured in his Dallas debut following the trade that sent Luka Doncic<\/a> to the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dallas is also without guard Kyrie Irving<\/a>, who tore an ACL last March and has an uncertain timeline for a return this season.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks made the play-in tournament last season but lost at Memphis with the eighth seed in the Western Conference at stake. Dallas entered today second-to-last in the West at 5-14.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Dallas Mavericks center Dereck Lively II will miss at least the next three games and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-306645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306645","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=306645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}