{"id":398416,"date":"2026-01-10T02:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/398416\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T02:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:36:07","slug":"dallas-mavericks-anthony-davis-facing-possible-season-ending-surgery-on-hand-dallas-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/398416\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks\u2019 Anthony Davis facing possible season-ending surgery on hand | Dallas Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Dallas Mavericks star big man Anthony Davis might be facing season-ending left hand surgery after being injured in Thursday night\u2019s game against the Utah Jazz, ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47563316\/mavs-anthony-davis-need-surgery-hand-sources-say\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Davis reportedly underwent an MRI exam on Friday that showed ligament damage in the hand. Davis reportedly will seek a second opinion to see if surgery is needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">ESPN reported Davis would miss at least six weeks if surgery is avoided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Davis was injured with 2:52 left in the 116-114 loss while defending Utah star Lauri Markkanen on a drive to the basket. Davis was in obvious pain after the play and left the contest with 2:08 remaining after he was holding the hand and unable to defend Markkanen\u2019s next basket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The timing of the injury could affect Dallas\u2019 trade plans. The club reportedly planned to shop Davis prior to the 5 February trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Davis hasn\u2019t even been with the Mavericks for a year yet. He came over in the controversial and disastrous deal in which star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/luka-doncic\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/a> was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Davis, who turns 33 in March, is making $54.1m this season. He is due to make $58.5m next season and has a player option for $62.8m in 2027-28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Davis has played in just 29 games for the Mavericks \u2013 nine last season and 20 this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He is averaging 20.4 points, 11.1 rebounds and 1.7 blocked shots this season. He is a 10-time All-Star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks star big man Anthony Davis might be facing season-ending left hand surgery after being injured in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-398416","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\/398416","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=398416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}