{"id":431521,"date":"2025-03-06T08:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T07:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=431521"},"modified":"2025-03-06T08:30:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T07:30:56","slug":"kidd-irvings-injury-a-freak-accident-not-workload-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kidd-irvings-injury-a-freak-accident-not-workload-related\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidd: Irving\u2019s injury a freak accident, not workload-related"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"987\" data-end=\"1184\"><strong data-start=\"987\" data-end=\"1007\">Dallas Mavericks<\/strong> coach <strong data-start=\"1014\" data-end=\"1028\">Jason Kidd<\/strong> called <strong data-start=\"1036\" data-end=\"1054\">Kyrie Irving\u2019s<\/strong> season-ending <strong data-start=\"1069\" data-end=\"1081\">ACL tear<\/strong> a <strong data-start=\"1084\" data-end=\"1104\">\u201cfreak accident\u201d<\/strong>, dismissing claims that his increased playing time contributed to the injury.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1186\" data-end=\"1670\">In the <strong data-start=\"1193\" data-end=\"1205\">10 games<\/strong> before getting hurt, <strong data-start=\"1227\" data-end=\"1237\">Irving<\/strong> averaged <strong data-start=\"1247\" data-end=\"1272\">39.3 minutes per game<\/strong>, the most in the <strong data-start=\"1290\" data-end=\"1297\">NBA<\/strong> during that span. However, Kidd was quick to refute any connection: &#8220;We want our stars to play. This isn\u2019t supposed to be a rest league.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1186\" data-end=\"1670\">&#8221; Irving, who was averaging <strong data-start=\"1462\" data-end=\"1486\">24.7 points per game<\/strong>, had been <strong data-start=\"1497\" data-end=\"1531\">Dallas\u2019 most consistent player<\/strong>, leaving the team struggling for depth as they fight for a <strong data-start=\"1591\" data-end=\"1607\">play-in spot<\/strong> without <strong data-start=\"1616\" data-end=\"1633\">Anthony Davis<\/strong> and several other injured players.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1708\" data-end=\"1726\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"1708\" data-end=\"1717\">Source:<\/em> <em data-start=\"1718\" data-end=\"1724\">ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd called Kyrie Irving\u2019s season-ending ACL tear a \u201cfreak accident\u201d<\/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-431521","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\/431521","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=431521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431521\/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=431521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431521"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=431521"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=431521"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=431521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}