{"id":484298,"date":"2026-02-18T16:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=484298"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:37:14","slug":"mavs-kyrie-irving-ruled-out-for-remainder-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mavs-kyrie-irving-ruled-out-for-remainder-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs: Kyrie Irving Ruled Out for Remainder of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrie Irving, point guard of the Dallas Mavericks, will not return for the final stretch of the current season.<\/p>\n<p>The former Duke standout released a statement through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/mavs\/news\/kyrie-irving-to-miss-remainder-of-2025-26-season-as-he-continues-acl-recovery\">the team\u2019s official website:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"w-full\">\n<div class=\"GutenbergParagraph_gutenbergParagraph__T0iap mt-5 body--sm\" data-testid=\"paragraph\">\n<p>\u201cThis decision wasn\u2019t easy, but it\u2019s the right one,\u201d Irving said. \u201cI am grateful for the Mavericks organization, my teammates and our fans for their continued support throughout the process.\u00a0I am looking forward to coming back stronger next season. The belief and drive I have inside only grows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"w-full\">\n<div class=\"GutenbergParagraph_gutenbergParagraph__T0iap mt-5 body--sm\" data-testid=\"paragraph\">\n<p>And I wanted to send a huge shoutout to ALL of my brothers and sisters out there who\u2019ve torn their ACL or gotten injured doing what they love to do every day. THANK YOU for the inspiration. No fear!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dallas currently sits 12th in the Western Conference with 19 wins in 54 games.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Jason Kidd and his staff will likely use the remainder of the regular season to evaluate which players can be part of the franchise\u2019s long-term plans alongside the duo of Irving and Cooper Flagg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nine-time All-Star is nearing the end of his recovery from the left knee ACL injury he suffered in March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":389754,"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-484298","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\/05\/kyrie-irving-minnesota-gara-3.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484298","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484298"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=484298"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=484298"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=484298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}