{"id":404524,"date":"2025-11-25T22:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404524\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T22:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:07:15","slug":"dereck-lively-ii-faces-another-extended-absence-with-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404524\/","title":{"rendered":"Dereck Lively II faces another extended absence with Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks<\/a> center Dereck Lively II<\/a> will miss at least the next three games and likely more as he is evaluated for swelling and discomfort in his right foot.<\/p>\n

The oft-injured former Duke player has been limited to seven games following offseason foot surgery and a knee issue this season. The team said Tuesday it would provide a further timeline on Lively’s possible return in seven to 10 days.<\/p>\n

Lively was plagued by injuries in his first two seasons as well. The 21-year-old played in 55 games as a rookie, when the Mavericks reached the NBA Finals before losing to Boston in five games. He played just 36 games last season, dealing mostly with a stress fracture in his foot.<\/p>\n

The loss of Lively comes with the Mavericks awaiting the return of forward Anthony Davis from a calf strain. Davis has missed the past 14 games. He was also out a month last season after getting injured in his Dallas debut following the trade that sent Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n

Dallas is also without guard Kyrie Irving, who tore an ACL last March and has an uncertain timeline for a return this season.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks made the play-in tournament last season but lost at Memphis with the eighth seed in the Western Conference at stake. Dallas entered today second-to-last in the West at 5-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks center Dereck Lively II will miss at least the next three games and likely more as…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":404525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3139,11018,3365,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-404524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-dallas-mavericks","9":"tag-kyrie-irving","10":"tag-luka-doncic","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115612617603542731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}