{"id":428533,"date":"2025-02-14T08:41:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T07:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=428533"},"modified":"2025-02-14T08:41:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T07:41:52","slug":"daniel-gafford-out-six-weeks-mavs-frontcourt-depth-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/daniel-gafford-out-six-weeks-mavs-frontcourt-depth-in-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Gafford out six weeks, Mavs&#8217; frontcourt depth in crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1542\" data-end=\"1867\">The <strong data-start=\"1546\" data-end=\"1566\">Dallas Mavericks<\/strong> have suffered another injury blow as <strong data-start=\"1604\" data-end=\"1622\">Daniel Gafford<\/strong> is expected to miss <strong data-start=\"1643\" data-end=\"1665\">at least six weeks<\/strong> due to a <strong data-start=\"1675\" data-end=\"1697\">Grade 3 MCL sprain<\/strong> in his right knee. The injury occurred during Monday\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1753\" data-end=\"1785\">loss to the Sacramento Kings<\/strong>, and Gafford reassured fans via Instagram: <em data-start=\"1829\" data-end=\"1865\">&#8220;Y\u2019all wait for me\u2026 Be back soon.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1869\" data-end=\"2140\">The <strong data-start=\"1873\" data-end=\"1893\">Mavs&#8217; frontcourt<\/strong> is now in <strong data-start=\"1904\" data-end=\"1914\">crisis<\/strong>, with <strong data-start=\"1921\" data-end=\"1938\">Anthony Davis<\/strong> sidelined for at least <strong data-start=\"1962\" data-end=\"1976\">four weeks<\/strong> due to an adductor strain, <strong data-start=\"2004\" data-end=\"2024\">Dereck Lively II<\/strong> still out with a stress fracture in his ankle, and <strong data-start=\"2076\" data-end=\"2093\">Dwight Powell<\/strong> missing 14 straight games with a hip injury.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2142\" data-end=\"2300\">Despite the setbacks, <strong data-start=\"2164\" data-end=\"2174\">Dallas<\/strong> has managed to win back-to-back games, with <strong data-start=\"2219\" data-end=\"2262\">6-foot-7 two-way player Kessler Edwards<\/strong> stepping in as an emergency center.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2302\" data-end=\"2318\"><em data-start=\"2302\" data-end=\"2316\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Mavericks center Daniel Gafford has suffered a Grade 3 MCL sprain and will miss at least six weeks, adding to the team&#8217;s injury woes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-428533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Dallas-Mavericks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428533"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=428533"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=428533"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=428533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}