Dereck Lively II will have season-ending surgery on his right foot, the Dallas Mavericks announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old center only appeared in seven games this season, averaging 4 points and 5 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Lively’s surgery will be performed by Dr. James Calder in London, England. Calder is one of the world’s leading surgeons for professional athletes, according to his biography<\/a>, with previous patients including soccer superstars<\/a> Neymar and Gareth Bale.<\/p>\n The team expects Lively to make a full recovery and be available for the start of training camp.<\/p>\n “Dereck has handled every challenge of this season with professionalism and resilience,” Mavericks co-interim General Manager Matt Riccardi said in a statement. “While this is a setback, we’re confident in his long-term future and will support him fully through his recovery.”<\/p>\n Dallas Mavericks injury woes<\/p>\n Lively’s surgery is the latest blow to the team, which is still struggling with injuries going back to last season.<\/p>\n Star point guard Kyrie Irving has not yet appeared in a game for the Mavs this season since tearing his ACL in March. Star power forward Anthony Davis recently returned to the lineup after missing 15 games in November due to a knee injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n Shooting guard Klay Thompson, forward PJ Washington and center Daniel Gafford have all missed recent games due to injury, as well.<\/p>\n The Mavs are in 11th place in the Western Conference with a 9-16 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dereck Lively II will have season-ending surgery on his right foot, the Dallas Mavericks announced Wednesday. The 21-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":438375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,3139,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-438374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115696644245989373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438374","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=438374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}