{"id":441199,"date":"2025-05-08T16:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=441199"},"modified":"2025-05-08T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:46:15","slug":"dallas-mavericks-overhaul-health-staff-again-dismiss-belton-and-calhoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dallas-mavericks-overhaul-health-staff-again-dismiss-belton-and-calhoun\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks overhaul health staff again, dismiss Belton and Calhoun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks have parted ways with Keith Belton, the athletic performance director, and Dionne Calhoun, the head athletic trainer. Both moves reflect deeper concerns about internal dysfunction.<\/p>\n<p>Per Marc Stein, GM Nico Harrison is taking decisive action to rebuild the team\u2019s health and performance staff for next season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Mavericks made multiple training staff changes today after a season filled with injuries and marked by no shortage of tumult within its medical and performance team, league sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheSteinLine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DLLS_Sports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DLLS_Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More coverage from April: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zeaVHASxoA\">https:\/\/t.co\/zeaVHASxoA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1920259994500382864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sources: Mavericks GM Nico Harrison is making major changes to the team\u2019s health and performance group again. Among the dismissals: athletic performance director Keith Belton, Harrison\u2019s hire last summer; and head athletic trainer Dionne Calhoun.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn_macmahon\/status\/1920260672983601640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Harrison shakes up Dallas\u2019s performance department after an injury-ridden season<\/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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-441199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Dallas-Mavericks.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441199","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=441199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441199\/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=441199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441199"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=441199"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=441199"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=441199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}