{"id":236810,"date":"2026-04-06T04:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236810\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:50:11","slug":"mavs-daniel-gafford-shoulder-exits-game-vs-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236810\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs&#8217; Daniel Gafford (shoulder) exits game vs. Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An injury-plagued season for Daniel\u00a0Gafford continued on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks center exited their game against the Lakers early, the team announcing that he was ruled out with a shoulder strain.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the fourth quarter Gafford went up for a rebound opposite the Lakers&#8217; Rui Hachimura and appeared to tweak his shoulder. He exited toward the locker room and shortly after was ruled out by the team.<\/p>\n<p>Gafford finished the game with seven points and seven rebounds in 20 minutes. He&#8217;s dealt with multiple injuries throughout the season, including multiple shoulder issues. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2026\/03\/23\/mavericks-center-daniel-gafford-exits-warriors-matchup-with-right-shoulder-contusion\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exited early on March 23<\/a> against the Warriors with a shoulder contusion and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2026\/03\/31\/mavs-daniel-gafford-sustains-shoulder-injury-vs\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 31 against the Bucks<\/a> with a stinger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An injury-plagued season for Daniel\u00a0Gafford continued on Sunday. The Mavericks center exited their game against the Lakers early,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,88840],"class_list":{"0":"post-236810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-tp-dallas-mavericks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}