{"id":130498,"date":"2025-03-24T14:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T18:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=130498"},"modified":"2025-03-24T14:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T18:57:12","slug":"dallas-mavericks-star-kyrie-irving-gets-real-brutal-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/24\/dallas-mavericks-star-kyrie-irving-gets-real-brutal-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks Star Gets Real About Brutal Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Mavericks<\/a> have dealt with the injury bug all season long. This was especially evident when Kyrie Irving<\/a> suffered a season-ending ACL injury earlier this month. At the time, many speculated that Irving’s injury was due to fatigue and an increased workload. This was because of the Luka Doncic<\/a> trade and the injuries to other key Mavericks players, such as Anthony Davis<\/a>, Daniel Gafford<\/a>, and Dereck Lively<\/a>. However, Irving recently spoke about his injury and provided some clarity (YouTube link<\/a>). Irving made it clear that he did not believe his injury was caused by fatigue.<\/p>\n

“So I feel like this ties hand in hand because even after I got injured, certain media members were coming out trying to blame J-Kidd, or blame the Dallas Mavericks. You know, and all this other stuff\u2014they were trying to blame people. Because I was playing a lot of minutes. I\u2019m telling you right now: if you ask 95% of the league\u2014there\u2019s another 5% that don\u2019t really care when they play\u2014but you ask 95% of the league if they\u2019d rather play 15 minutes or 35 minutes a night? I guarantee you, 95% of them would say 35 minutes,” Irving said.<\/p>\n

“I led the league in minutes. So f*** what? So the f*** what? Like, you guys are blaming other people\u2014so the f*** what? It doesn\u2019t bother me. I play professional sports. My job is to be conditioned at a very high level. I had to step on Valanciunas\u2019s foot for me to be off-balance and get injured…didn\u2019t get injured from fatigue…I didn\u2019t have a fatigue injury. I take great care of my body. You know what I mean?”<\/p>\n

Dallas Mavericks Star Kyrie Irving Gets Real About Brutal Injury<\/h2>\n

Mavericks Receive Some Positive Injury News<\/h3>\n

Recently, NBA insider Tim MacMahon provided a major injury update<\/a> on Davis. Davis suffered an adductor injury during his Mavericks debut and has not returned to the floor. However, according to MacMahon, Davis’ return may be imminent.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, my understanding is AD is ramping up and nearing his return. He\u2019s going to play four-on-four, five-on-five this week, and he could be back as soon as the last week of March. And they\u2019re going to need him. Here\u2019s the thing\u2014some people have asked, \u2018Why take the risk?\u2019 But he wants to play. He wants to be out there. Derek Lively II is also ramping up. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s quite as close, but it\u2019s a similar conversation. He wants to play,\u201d MacMahon said.<\/p>\n

Ahead of their game against the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> on Monday, the Mavericks upgraded Davis to questionable. As it stands, it is not clear if he will make his return yet. However, it is still good news for the Mavericks regardless.<\/p>\n

With just a couple of weeks left in the season, the Mavericks are in a tough spot. They are 34-37 and own the No. 11 seed in the West. In order to make a late push, Davis’ presence is crucial. Fortunately for them, his return may happen sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Mavericks have dealt with the injury bug all season long. This was especially evident when Kyrie Irving suffered a season-ending ACL injury earlier this month. At the time, many speculated that Irving’s injury was due to fatigue and an increased workload. This was because of the Luka Doncic trade and the injuries to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4631,"featured_media":130503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,30,2,62,3],"tags":[406,4745],"class_list":["post-130498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-mavericks","category-featured","category-nba","category-news","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-nba-injuries"],"modified_by":"Elie Deglaoui","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130508,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130498\/revisions\/130508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}