{"id":68720,"date":"2025-11-28T19:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/68720\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T19:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:10:07","slug":"anthony-davis-will-return-to-dallas-mavericks-lineup-vs-los-angeles-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/68720\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Davis will return to Dallas Mavericks\u2019 lineup vs. Los Angeles Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Anthony Davis is set to make his return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> lineup against the Los Angeles Lakers, a person with knowledge of the team\u2019s thinking confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeACurtis2\/status\/1994474399442047304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeACurtis2\/status\/1994474399442047304\">The Dallas Morning News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The 10-time All-Star has been out of the lineup since suffering a left calf strain against the Indiana Pacers on Oct. 29. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Davis participated in a full practice Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2025\/11\/24\/how-close-is-mavericks-anthony-davis-to-a-return-from-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2025\/11\/24\/how-close-is-mavericks-anthony-davis-to-a-return-from-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\">for the first time since his injury<\/a> and was listed as questionable for Friday\u2019s game at Crypto.com Arena, where he hasn\u2019t played since the Mavericks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2025\/02\/01\/dallas-mavericks-luka-doncic-trade-lakers-anthony-davis-max-christie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2025\/02\/01\/dallas-mavericks-luka-doncic-trade-lakers-anthony-davis-max-christie\/\" target=\"_blank\">acquired him in February<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">It\u2019s been nearly a month since Davis\u2019 calf injury and the Mavericks at 5-14 cling to the bottom of the Western Conference standings, but they hope he can provide some relief on both ends of the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Mavericks<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Be the smartest Mavericks fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Davis was averaging a double-double of 20.8 points and 10.2 rebounds in the five games before his injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\">Find more Mavericks coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Davis is set to make his return to the Dallas Mavericks lineup against the Los Angeles Lakers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4643,102,104,2582,103,4281,3080,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-68720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-anthony-davis","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-mavericks","12":"tag-dallas-news","13":"tag-mavericks","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68720","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=68720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}