{"id":263632,"date":"2025-10-31T21:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263632\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T21:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:37:07","slug":"mavs-anthony-davis-day-to-day-uncertain-for-mexico-city-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263632\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs&#8217; Anthony Davis day-to-day, uncertain for Mexico City game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 31, 2025, 05:16 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>MEXICO CITY &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6583\/anthony-davis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Davis<\/a>&#8216; availability is uncertain for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-mavericks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a>&#8216; game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-pistons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> in Mexico City on Saturday due to a leg injury.<\/p>\n<p>Davis traveled with the Mavericks and attended practice. Dallas coach Jason Kidd said Friday that Davis&#8217; status is not known.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Davis <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/anthony-davis-leg-dallas-mavericks-27e8cc852561e0a1f3081609004a9861\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sustained the lower leg injury<\/a> in the first quarter of Wednesday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-pacers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A.D. is day to day,&#8221; Kidd said before practice at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico without getting into specifics.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, a 10-time All-Star, has been plagued by injuries throughout his career. Last season, after been traded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3945274\/luka-doncic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Doncic<\/a>, he <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mavericks-anthony-davis-luka-doncic-a94612fee43cfa220d4dd5b17156f1fa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">got injured<\/a> and missed 18 games and returned for the final eight games of the season as the Mavericks missed the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is going to be day to day,&#8221; said Davis. &#8220;But I feel better that is for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks&#8217; front court was already thin with centers Derek Lively II missing the last two games due to a sprained knee. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4278049\/daniel-gafford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Gafford<\/a> sustained an ankle injury on the first day of training camp and has not suited up this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks will face the Pistons at Arena Ciudad de Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Mavericks are Mexico regulars The matchup between the Mavericks and Pistons at Arena Ciudad de Mexico will be the 15th regular-season NBA game played in Mexico City. It will be the fourth for Dallas, most of any franchise. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/phx\/phoenix-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/orl\/orlando-magic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a> have each played three games in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is something incredible for the Mavs organization to come so many times. It show how important is Mexico and it is great to bring enjoyment to the fans,&#8221; Kidd said.<\/p>\n<p>Kidd played in one of those regular-season games in 2016, when the Mavericks defeated the Suns in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is exciting to be back, the Mexican fans really care about basketball and that why is important to be here,&#8221; Kidd said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t remember much of the game, just the lack of oxygen, you get tired really quick in here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mexico City is 7,349 feet above sea level, more than 2,000 feet higher than Denver, the highest altitude city in the NBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 31, 2025, 05:16 PM ET MEXICO CITY &#8212; Anthony Davis&#8216; availability is uncertain for the Dallas Mavericks&#8216;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-263632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263632","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=263632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}