{"id":480454,"date":"2026-01-23T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=480454"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:54:00","slug":"mavericks-coach-jason-kidd-kyrie-irvings-return-wont-be-dictated-by-dallas-place-in-the-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mavericks-coach-jason-kidd-kyrie-irvings-return-wont-be-dictated-by-dallas-place-in-the-standing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks coach Jason Kidd: Kyrie Irving\u2019s return won\u2019t be dictated by Dallas\u2019 place in the standing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1547\" data-end=\"1838\">The <strong data-start=\"1563\" data-end=\"1583\">Dallas Mavericks<\/strong> won\u2019t let their spot in the standings influence <strong data-start=\"1632\" data-end=\"1650\">Kyrie Irving\u2019s<\/strong> return timetable, according to head coach <strong data-start=\"1693\" data-end=\"1707\">Jason Kidd<\/strong>. Irving is continuing his recovery from the torn ACL he suffered last season, and Dallas will bring him back only when he\u2019s ready.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1840\" data-end=\"2046\">\u201cThat has nothing to do with it,\u201d Kidd said when asked whether the team\u2019s record will factor in. He added it\u2019s about Irving being mentally and physically able to play \u201cat the highest level\u201d in his own mind.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2048\" data-end=\"2328\">Kidd said Irving is eager to get back on the court, but emphasized that coming off an ACL is \u201ca time thing,\u201d and players want to feel 100 percent both mentally and physically. Kidd noted Irving is progressing well in those areas and that \u201cat some point, there will be a schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2330\" data-end=\"2397\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"2330\" data-end=\"2344\">The Athletic<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irving is working back from last season\u2019s torn ACL, but the team won\u2019t rush him based on its record<\/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-480454","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\/480454","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=480454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480454\/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=480454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480454"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=480454"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=480454"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=480454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}