{"id":321711,"date":"2025-11-30T04:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321711\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T04:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:15:14","slug":"mavs-washington-late-scratch-after-spraining-ankle-in-warmups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321711\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs’ Washington late scratch after spraining ankle in warmups"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim MacMahonNov 29, 2025, 10:53 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM<\/p>\n

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The Dallas Mavericks<\/a>‘ injury list expanded during pregame warmups, when forward P.J. Washington<\/a> sprained his right ankle.<\/p>\n

Washington suffered the injury when he landed on a basketball minutes before the opening tip against the LA Clippers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Washington was a late scratch from the starting lineup. He was ruled out for the game midway through the first quarter.<\/p>\n

Dallas was already without its top three big men.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/p>\n

Anthony Davis<\/a> sat out the second night of the back-to-back after returning from a monthlong absence due to a left calf strain in Friday’s loss to the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Daniel Gafford<\/a>, who has been dealing with soreness in his right ankle since he sprained it during the first practice of training camp, was unavailable due to ankle injury management.<\/p>\n

Dereck Lively II<\/a> did not make the road trip with the team. He is being evaluated for swelling and discomfort in his surgically repaired right foot.<\/p>\n

Washington is averaging career highs of 16.0 points and 7.8 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim MacMahonNov 29, 2025, 10:53 PM ET CloseJoined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-321711","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\/321711","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=321711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}