He is expected to be healthy for training camp in September.<\/p>\n
Editor’s Picks Lively missed more than two months last season due to a stress fracture in his right ankle, one of several injuries that derailed Dallas’ year. Lively has struggled some with injury issues early in his NBA career; he’s appeared in just 91 regular season games over his first two seasons.<\/p>\n Lively, 21, is the third key member of the Mavericks who will be undergoing rehab this summer, along with Kyrie Irving<\/a> and Anthony Davis<\/a>.<\/p>\n Irving suffered a torn ACL late last season and is expected to miss at least the bulk of next year. Davis had surgery to repair a detached retina he suffered last season but is expected to be healthy for camp.<\/p>\n The Mavericks head into next season with a new-look roster headlined by No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg<\/a>, who joins a loaded frontcourt that includes Lively, Davis, Daniel Gafford<\/a> and P.J. Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 15, 2025, 02:56 PM ET Dallas Mavericks center Dereck Lively II has undergone surgery to clean up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-12930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1480734_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
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