{"id":130520,"date":"2025-03-24T15:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T19:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=130520"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T19:24:14","slug":"dallas-mavericks-star-kyrie-irving-message-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/24\/dallas-mavericks-star-kyrie-irving-message-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Star Sends Much-Needed Message to Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

With less than a month left in the season, the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> are in a difficult spot. They are 34-27 and own the No. 11 seed in the West. After making the NBA Finals not even a year ago, the Mavericks may miss out on the postseason altogether this year. Additionally, they have dealt with numerous injuries all year. This includes Kyrie Irving<\/a>, who suffered a season-ending ACL injury in the Mavericks’ loss to the Sacramento Kings<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Despite how poorly the Mavericks’ season has gone so far, the players are not giving up. Recently, Irving spoke to Mavericks fans and sent an encouraging message (YouTube link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

“I know we\u2019ve dealt with a lot. I know we\u2019ve been going through a lot. But please, just stick with us. Understand that we\u2019re here for the long haul, too\u2014to make this thing work. I don\u2019t want anybody to focus on playing the blame game. Let\u2019s just focus on where we are now. I\u2019m so grateful to be surrounded by a community like Dallas, where we love sports. We love our sports players. We support each other. But at the same time, our culture is being rebuilt as we speak. It\u2019s part of franchise building and franchise changes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mavericks Star Kyrie Irving Sends Much-Needed Message to Fans<\/h2>\n

Kyrie Irving Opens Up About His Injury<\/h3>\n

At the time of his injury, many speculated that Irving was dealing with too much fatigue. However, the Mavericks star recently clarified and said fatigue was not the issue.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cSo 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,\u201d Irving said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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\u2026didn\u2019t get injured from fatigue\u2026I didn\u2019t have a fatigue injury. I take great care of my body. You know what I mean?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Last Word<\/h3>\n

The Mavericks are in rough shape. However, it is not all bad in Dallas. They still have a talented roster and are a highly intriguing team. It is still fair to question the Doncic trade. Even so, Davis is a big asset for them regardless. This season may unofficially be over. However, if they can get fully healthy for next year, the Mavericks are a team to keep an eye on in the playoff race. After making the Finals less than a year ago, the Mavericks will aim to get back to the big stage. Hopefully for them, they can do it sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

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

With less than a month left in the season, the Dallas Mavericks are in a difficult spot. They are 34-27 and own the No. 11 seed in the West. After making the NBA Finals not even a year ago, the Mavericks may miss out on the postseason altogether this year. Additionally, they have dealt with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4631,"featured_media":130522,"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],"class_list":["post-130520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-mavericks","category-featured","category-nba","category-news","tag-kyrie-irving"],"modified_by":"Elie Deglaoui","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130520","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=130520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130529,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130520\/revisions\/130529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}