{"id":172040,"date":"2026-01-09T01:25:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=172040"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:25:03","slug":"mavs-175-4-million-trade-chip-anthony-davis-late-game-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2026\/01\/09\/mavs-175-4-million-trade-chip-anthony-davis-late-game-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs $175.4 Million Trade Chip Suffers Untimely Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when the Dallas Mavericks believe they&#8217;ve weathered the storm, $175.4 million man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/davisan02.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Davis<\/a> proves that their wishful thinking is nothing but that.<\/p>\n<h1>Mavs $175.4 Million Trade Chip Anthony Davis Suffers Untimely Injury<\/h1>\n<p>On Thursday, Davis sustained a hand injury with 2:08 remaining in the fourth quarter of a close-fought battle against the Utah Jazz while attempting to stop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/markkla01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lauri Markkanen<\/a> on the drive. After the play, Davis could be seen sitting on the bench hunched over, holding his left hand (h\/t Ron Harrod Jr. of DLLS Mavs). Rocking back-and-forth. Then, heading into the tunnel with a member of the Mavs staff, he literally doubled-over in pain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A better angle of the Anthony Davis injury.<\/p>\n<p>He has to stop before making it back to the locker room. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RdIr5vODjw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/RdIr5vODjw<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sLy9nrd9aK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/sLy9nrd9aK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ron Harrod Jr. (@RonKnowsSports) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonKnowsSports\/status\/2009477235221393674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t return and Dallas lost to Utah, 114-116. In 35 minutes, he recorded 20 points, 11 rebounds, four assists, one steal and one block. Following the game, Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd would tell reporters: &#8220;He hurt his left hand. That&#8217;s all we had.&#8221; (h\/t Grant Afseth of <em>DallasHoopsJournal.com<\/em>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Anthony Davis was sidelined for the final minutes of the Dallas Mavericks&#8217; loss against the Utah Jazz after injuring his left hand. He went to the back of the arena as the Mavs closed the game.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Kidd on info about Davis&#8217; injury: &#8220;He hurt his left hand. That\u2019s all we had.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Grant Afseth (@GrantAfseth) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrantAfseth\/status\/2009483116516344105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This season, Davis has only appeared in 20 of the 38 games that Dallas has played.<\/p>\n<h2>Anthony Davis&#8217;s Injury Could Have Huge Effect On Trade Deadline<\/h2>\n<p>Davis&#8217;s injury could have a huge ripple effect on the rest of the NBA, as he&#8217;s one of the most sought after players on the trade market. So much so that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2009090039771549852?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the reasons<\/a> the Atlanta Hawks traded star point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/y\/youngtr01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trae Young<\/a> to the Washington Wizards was to make a deal for Davis more feasible, according to ESPN insider Shams Charania. The Golden State Warriors, Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls, Milwaukee Bucks and Detroit Pistons <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2026\/01\/05\/anthony-davis-trade-rumors-hit-wall-as-deadline-approaches\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">have been connected to<\/a> Davis as well.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Davis&#8217;s lack of durability isn&#8217;t a new development, as he&#8217;s historically an injury-prone player. For reference, he&#8217;s only played 60+ games in two seasons since 2018-19. Because of that, the fact that he may be on the mend again hasn&#8217;t caught anyone by surprise. Nonetheless, teams are understandably going to be less keen on trading for a player that&#8217;s currently injured. Even the ones that may believe they just need Davis to be healthy at the right time (i.e., the playoffs).<\/p>\n<div class=\"modal-image-setImageMetadata\">\n<p class=\"ng-binding\">\u00a9 Rob Gray-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when the Dallas Mavericks believe they&#8217;ve weathered the storm, $175.4 million man Anthony Davis proves that their wishful thinking is nothing but that. Mavs $175.4 Million Trade Chip Anthony Davis Suffers Untimely Injury On Thursday, Davis sustained a hand injury with 2:08 remaining in the fourth quarter of a close-fought battle against the Utah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":172042,"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":[30,4,1608,8,10,25,62,3,14,4721],"tags":[240,4774,1382,662,1349],"class_list":["post-172040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mavericks","category-hawks","category-basketball","category-bulls","category-pistons","category-warriors","category-nba","category-news","category-raptors","category-trade-rumors","tag-anthony-davis","tag-rumors","tag-nba-trade","tag-nba-trade-deadline","tag-trae-young"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172040","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\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172043,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172040\/revisions\/172043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}