{"id":478823,"date":"2026-01-14T08:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=478823"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:38:59","slug":"mavericks-anthony-davis-avoids-surgery-expected-out-about-six-weeks-as-deadline-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mavericks-anthony-davis-avoids-surgery-expected-out-about-six-weeks-as-deadline-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks\u2019 Anthony Davis avoids surgery, expected out about six weeks as deadline nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1736\" data-end=\"2016\">The <strong data-start=\"1740\" data-end=\"1760\">Dallas Mavericks<\/strong> announced <strong data-start=\"1771\" data-end=\"1788\">Anthony Davis<\/strong> won\u2019t need surgery on his injured left hand after meeting with his physician.<br data-start=\"1866\" data-end=\"1869\" \/>The team said he is expected to \u201cheal from the injury\u201d in approximately <strong data-start=\"1941\" data-end=\"1954\">six weeks<\/strong>, with sources noting it still could stretch to eight or more.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2018\" data-end=\"2274\">The report adds Davis had previously been expected to require surgery for ligament damage and miss several months.<br data-start=\"2132\" data-end=\"2135\" \/>He suffered the injury late in a road loss to Utah while defending <strong data-start=\"2202\" data-end=\"2221\">Lauri Markkanen<\/strong>, finishing that game with 21 points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2276\" data-end=\"2551\">ESPN also notes Dallas has renewed trade talks involving Davis with multiple interested teams as the <strong data-start=\"2377\" data-end=\"2402\">Feb. 5 trade deadline<\/strong> nears.<br data-start=\"2409\" data-end=\"2412\" \/>This season, Davis is averaging <strong data-start=\"2444\" data-end=\"2459\">20.4 points<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2461\" data-end=\"2478\">11.1 rebounds<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2483\" data-end=\"2497\">1.7 blocks<\/strong>, while Dallas is 10-10 with him and 5-15 without him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2553\" data-end=\"2638\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Davis will not undergo surgery on his left hand, with Dallas projecting roughly six weeks for recovery, though it could extend longer<\/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-478823","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\/478823","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=478823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478823\/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=478823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478823"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=478823"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=478823"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=478823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}