{"id":369718,"date":"2025-12-25T17:46:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369718\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T17:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:46:04","slug":"evan-mobley-makes-a-quick-return-from-a-calf-strain-to-rejoin-the-cavaliers-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369718\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan Mobley makes a quick return from a calf strain to rejoin the Cavaliers on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Evan Mobley is averaging a career-high 19.1 points per game and adding 9.3 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Evan Mobley was available to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers against New York on Thursday, making it back from a strained left calf in less than two weeks when it was originally feared he could miss twice that.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers said the reigning Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year would miss two to four weeks after he sustained a Grade 1 strain of the calf on Dec. 12. Instead, he missed only five games before providing a big Christmas boost to Cleveland.<\/p>\n

Coach Kenny Atkinson said Mobley had progressed in recent days to playing 3-on-3 and 4-on-4 in practices, then worked out before the game, and the Cavaliers upgraded him from questionable to available to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing about Evan I\u2019ve learned, he heals pretty quick,\u201d Atkinson said before the game. \u201cLike, he\u2019s 23. Sometimes age is a factor in these things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mobley was not in the starting lineup, joining players such as Victor Wembanyama and Zion Williamson in coming off the bench in recent games after returning from their injuries.<\/p>\n

Mobley is averaging a career-high 19.1 points per game and adding 9.3 rebounds per game. His addition is another positive for a Cavaliers team that has dealt with injuries during a 17-14 start. But Cleveland came into New York after consecutive victories and Atkinson said he could see momentum starting to build for a team that won 64 games in 2024-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evan Mobley is averaging a career-high 19.1 points per game and adding 9.3 rebounds per game. NEW YORK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[51299,355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-369718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-evan-mobley","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369718","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=369718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}