{"id":304163,"date":"2025-11-20T23:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304163\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:59:09","slug":"mavs-dante-exum-out-for-season-after-knee-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304163\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs\u2019 Dante Exum out for season after knee complications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dante Exum will miss the season as ongoing complications from offseason knee surgery now require a second procedure, the Mavericks announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>DALLAS \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/mavericks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Dallas Mavericks\u00a0<\/a>announced Thursday that guard Dante Exum will miss the entire season after his right knee didn\u2019t heal the way the team had hoped.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Mavs, Exum is still dealing with complications from his offseason surgery, and now he\u2019ll need a second procedure \u2014 effectively shutting down his season before it ever got started.<\/p>\n<p>Exum returned to Dallas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/sports\/nba\/mavericks\/report-dante-exum-agrees-one-year-deal-dallas-mavericks\/287-e687b0db-615e-4a7d-8651-3a760871d882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">over the summer on a one-year deal worth $3.3 million<\/a>, but persistent knee problems kept him from taking part in training camp or team practices.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old has battled injuries throughout his NBA career. He contributed 8.0 points and 2.8 assists per game across 75 appearances for the Mavericks over the last two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>This is another injury blow to the Mavs as they desperately need the entire team to get healthy. The team holds a 4-12 record and sits at 13th in the West. There are still more than 60 games left in the season for Dallas to turn it around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dante Exum will miss the season as ongoing complications from offseason knee surgery now require a second procedure,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-304163","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\/304163","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=304163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}