{"id":171511,"date":"2025-09-21T09:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/171511\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T09:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:21:11","slug":"anthony-davis-clears-critical-milestone-in-bid-to-return-from-eye-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/171511\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Davis Clears Critical Milestone in Bid to Return From Eye Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_yiik4ysdq\">Mavericks center Anthony Davis is coming off of a strange season that <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/mavericks-star-anthony-davis-undergoes-surgery-for-detached-retina\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ended with him undergoing eye surgery in the offseason<\/a>. However, the 10-time All-Star appears to be on the mend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ikvi13nvs\">Davis played five-on-five this week for his first game-speed action since he underwent the surgery, according to a Saturday afternoon report from veteran NBA writer <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1969499480480190971?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Stein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_88y5pub3s\">The 32-year-old averaged 24.7 points, 11.6 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game a year ago. He played 42 games for the Lakers and nine games for Dallas after being traded on Feb. 2 for guard Luka Don\u010di\u0107, in what was immediately recognized among the wildest transactions in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_72wybrz5y\">Davis, entering his 14th season, has five All-NBA appearances to his name along with a championship with Los Angeles in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_xkwjvauta\">The Mavericks are scheduled to open their season on Oct. 22 against the rival Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mavericks center Anthony Davis is coming off of a strange season that ended with him undergoing eye surgery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-171511","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\/171511","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=171511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}