REPORT: Dereck Lively’s Injury Update Demands Changing Plans | Move On? | Dallas Mavericks Podcast

REPORT: Dereck Lively’s Injury Update Demands Changing Plans | Move On? | Dallas Mavericks Podcast

On today’s show, Derek Lively out probably indefinitely for the Dallas Mavericks, but it’s not time to move on from him yet. We’ll tell you why. Today’s locked on Mavs. This is Cooper Flag and you’re listening to locked on. I think that’s a good question. Morning. All these changes. You know, I still got my dog Dwight Pal. On your daily Mavericks podcast of the Locked On, your team every day. I’m going to give a city like back and welcome. You are locked on to the Dallas Mavericks your team every day. My name is Nick Angststead media member covering the MS for 10 years. Thanks for being every day or making locked time apps your first listen and making the locked on podcast network the number one sports podcast network out there. Today’s episode is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app. Create an account. Use that code locked on NBA for $20 off your first purchase. Joining me as always, my co-host, media member cover 10 years right alongside with me, the Derek Hype Squad son, the one we’re thinking. What you got for me, Isaac Harris? Well, tonight’s a big night recording this uh Tuesday night. Big night in the Harris household. It is the finale of the Dancing with the Stars. And uh I was like B like it could be Bachelor. It could be are the Ravens playing tonight randomly. That was like the things that it was about it was about to get to the results. It’s a threehour finale about to get to the results and that’s when Nick wanted to record. So Barb, my wife is I told her she could go ahead and watch, but she’s like, “No, I’m going to wait for you.” Not without you. No, we got to get Va Val and Alex Earl. They got to win this thing. I don’t care. Irwin still in it, dude. He’s annoying, man. Stop it. No. Don’t you dare. Don’t you Don’t you dare. He’s such a nice He’s such a nice dude. And I’m going to make this analogy, but And it’s because he’s involved with animals. It’s He’s just like the fir It’s like the first time you go to the zoo as like a kid and he has that that energy all the time. I’m like, “Okay.” You know who his dad is? I I do. It was cool the first time, but now I’m just like, “Dang, dude, you’re draining. Like, I could not be around you.” Wow. Cuz he has a spice for life and enjoys living. Today’s episode, we’re going to get into Derek Lively and the update on him. We’ll talk about the other MABs bigs, too. What does this mean for Daniel Gaffford? Can the Mavs afford to even move on from him? Anthony Davis is reportedly coming back soon. Is he coming back for that Lakers game like I had predicted weeks ago? We’ll we’ll talk we’ll talk about that, but let’s start here. Isaac Derrick Lively an update from the Dallas Mavericks came today. The Dallas Mavericks don’t usually give an injury update unless it’s something significant. And in this case, it was Derrick Lively currently being evaluated for swelling and discomfort in his right foot. He will miss the team’s upcoming three-game road trip and further timeline will be provided in approximately 7 to 10 days. This is not a surprise. Derrick Lively had been out with a knee contusion that turned into a knee sprain and that was weird. Then he came back and after a while, like longer than it probably should have been for a contusion, obviously then it was a sprain and he was still getting minute restrictions even like a couple games in he was still within the 15 to 18 minute. I thought they were being very cautious. They were keeping him out of backtobacks as well. And then all of a sudden on the injury report, it turned into a foot instead of a knee sprain. And that was one where I like perked my ears up and I was like, I’m just going to wait till an update comes. I’m not going to say anything about it. I’m just gonna watch this and see what happens. And here it is. And so Mark Stein reported about it a little bit earlier and said, uh, the Mavericks fear that he’s going to be out for an extended injury absence. He was held out of Monday’s game. Lively has played in seven of 19 games after offseason foot surgery and a recent knee issue. And that is the situation right now with Derrick Lively, which has many Mavs fans like sitting and asking themselves, is it time to move on from Derrick Lively? What do we do with Derek Lively? What’s the What’s the thing with Derrick Lively? And I don’t I’m kind of treating this like I think he’s out indefinitely, Isaac. Yeah. Um I don’t think he’s going to play for a very very long time. Um you know, I think there there is a possibility out there that we might not see him for the rest of the year. And it’s it really sucks. Um not just for the Mavs, but for him, too. You know, I went into the season and we did an episode earlier in the season of like kind of what’s some takes like that are floating out there that I I’m not on board with or I’m in the minority with or I want to like disprove. And one of them was that Derek Lively was injuryprone. And I was like, man, really is he like it’s early in his career. I don’t want to like put that label on him yet. And I was I was trying my best to like fight it. And then I went back and looked at his injury history. Yeah. And he’s only been in the league, you know, a few years now. And I was like, “All right, this isn’t helping my case.” And then bam, this is happening. And uh that that is the label for him. He is an injury-prone big man. And I mean, you even go back to, you know, when he first um came into Duke. Um you know, he got hurt in the preseason and that and a calf injury and, you know, he wasn’t the same player. I mean, it he you didn’t see the full potential of Derek Lively at Duke until the second half of that college season, his freshman season at Duke. And even towards the end of the year there, that’s when you started to see the glimpses of it. And that’s what honestly got him back up into the lottery there because it’s like depending on who you talk to, you’re like, well, he’s not healthy. Like, you don’t really know what you have to kind of go off lively like high school tapes and not what he’s playing at Duke. He’s also playing like a weird position at Duke and Yeah. And it’s like, all right, what what are you gonna do with it? Then you saw that potential at the end of Duke and then you know his rookie year he plays 55 games. Last year he ends up playing 32 games. Uh he had stress fracture in his right foot. Um and then this is the same foot, you know, this year. And it’s just never it’s never a good thing for any player. Uh it’s definitely not a good thing for a player that’s 7-1. Uh, anytime you get players that get past that seven foot mark that’s 73 that’s growing like even probably worse than he said he was growing over the offseason. I forgot about that. Yeah. Um, this is honestly one of the things with Wimi that I just don’t I don’t think gets talked about enough um that we all freak out about how much of an alien he is and it’s the peak of Wimi right now is just so much fun to watch. But historically when you you look at players that tall now Whim is you know a lot taller than Lively but it doesn’t three inches it doesn’t like he’s that big to you. Well depends on who you ask. Depends on how you use it. But but Wimby, I don’t think people talk about it enough of like, man, the the like the percentages or the the history doesn’t tell you that it’s going to end well for for Wimby unless he goes against the odds a little bit. And um I hope it’s different for Lively. Uh but unfortunately, it hasn’t been. And now I think you you got to figure out um is he locked in as a piece of the future or is it something that you’re entertaining all options now? That’s the question you have to answer. I and I don’t think it’s time to move on from him yet. Like I think it’s it’s too early. It’s too young. We have seen guys, you know, there’s usually smaller guys, but we have seen seen guys deal with some of these injuries and then get bigger, stronger, and be able to deal with some of these. Like obviously the Steph Curry thing where he was dealing with all those like ankle injuries and then he strengthened his hips and then he got better. Like we’ve seen guys in the NBA get better from some of these. They have not been sevenfooters necessarily like the Joel Embiid like it seems to come back for guys like that. Anthony Anthony Davis some of those things they they seem to come back and I’m with you. I don’t think you get rid of Derrick Lively right now. Um what’s the point? Yeah. It’s kind of like what are you going to get back? Like even if you’re like, “Hey, I’m not sold on Derek Lively going forward in the future.” Which sucks uh to say that um and I’m not there. It’s just like if you are in that camp, then what are you getting back right now? because any other franchise is looking at it, if they’re about to put anything good on the table, a high first round pick or an incredible like young piece or whatever you want to swap him or something, they’re going to be asking the same question uh of well crap, y’all had him in house for a couple years. Why are you just wanting to get rid of him? And because we’re going to bring him in with the same hopes of we want him to be a young big in our system for for a while. And I think the big thing right now, another reason why you don’t get rid of him is one, I don’t think you’re gonna get anywhere close to good value back for him. Second, I think you just wait it out. Like next year, so he makes $5.2 million this year. Next year he makes $7.2 million. After next year is when he will hit restrictive free agency if you don’t come to terms on an extension. You’re like, “Hey, Isaac, when’s the extension deadline?” Glad you asked. That is next October. This year it was October 20th, but next October. So you have until probably the mid to late of next October, October 2026 to decide on if you want to give a a bigger rookie extension to Derrick Lively. And I think that’s that’s my thing of like I’m just going to hold on to him until like let’s see what happens. like yes, well, I don’t want to like speculate and whatever of like what the next few weeks might hold, but it’s like go into the off season, see how what the summer holds, going into training camp, and then try to figure this thing out in October. And if you are in October and you’re not comfortable of giving him a rookie extension, if if you do play it out, you’re still looking at restrictive free agency uh that the same teams like Detroit’s doing with Ivy or Houston’s doing with Tari E or Indiana’s doing with Mathan. Like those guys didn’t come to terms on a rookie extension and they’re going to hit restrictive free agency this summer and those teams have they’re going to figure that stuff out then. So, it’s kind of like a Jaden Ivy thing of you’ve seen glimpses like you’ve seen hope, but I you know they might not feel comfortable enough to give a big extension to and when we’ve seen him he’s been impactful. He has a positive he has a positive plus minus on the season for a team that is five and 14. Just it’s been it’s been really tough to keep waiting for him to come back and then keep having setbacks like this. And so coming up I’m going to tell you why the Mavs do need to pivot in some way. They don’t have to move off. 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And that’s another thing that’s so frustrating is like we’ve we’ve got to see the value of Derrick Lively in a playoff run. You got to see Derrick Lively help carry this team to an NBA finals. You’ve seen him on the biggest stage. We’ve seen him at times to where we’re like watching playoff series saying, “Dang, they can’t leave leave Lively on the bench right now.” Like they got to they got to put him out there. Like Gaffford can’t hold his own and some of these, you know, switches and stuff in the playoffs. And Lively can and Lively just outplayed Gaffford in the playoffs and stuff. And so it’s like you that’s another added part of this is you already saw at such a young age that hardly any teams get to see their rookies on that stage. you’ve seen it in the position that he would hopefully play for the next decade on your team and now it’s kind of like well crap are we ever going to like see that again and that that’s just another layer makes it sucky. I’ll give one piece of hope potentially and I want to preface this by saying I’m not a doctor so I don’t know he has been under three different medical staffs since he’s been in Dallas. The very first like two months he Casey Smith was still there. He hadn’t gotten fired yet. And then the next group came in and then now this new group has has come in and so and then they the the previous group messed up his diagnosis. I said that he was the center point of all of that drama that unfolded. They messed up that diagnosis and he could he could have played with that injury before they they caught it at the very end and right before he was going to come back. And so there is a chance that that this new medical staff and like looks at this and says, “All right, I think we can fix this. Let’s let’s reset it. we kind of have this year now, this this weird gap year where we can fix this and reset it. This is why one of the reason why you and I think that he may be out for the season. They like do maybe they do another surgery and then it’s like, all right, let’s let’s reset let’s reset him and see if if it’s if he’s going to come back better and stronger from this. He works on some of the things that that you need to work on. He rehabs obviously and then you go back into that next se go back in into the next season, you see if he’s, you know, ready throughout the offseason and then you can look at that extension in October like you said. Yeah, it’s just buying time and and like I said before, it’s like what’s the alternative? He makes $5 million. It’s not like because I feel like some people might be saying, “Well, why are you talking about Anthony Davis trades then? What’s the alternative to that?” Well, AD makes 50ome million dollars. Like, and if he stays hurt, then it’s 60 million. Like, you’re you’re getting I mean, that’s just an insane amount of money for someone to be hurt compared to Derek Lively at five and then $7 million next year. And you have like kind of a year now, the next 11 months to figure out, hey, is he a is he a long-term, you know, piece for our team? He should be like talent-wise, like personalitywise, he like the way that he’s brought the community together, the way that he’s like being shown himself as a leader as even one of the youngest players on the team going into that finals. Like he was a leader on the defensive end. like this is a this is a bummer if this is towards like if we’re seeing the end of this for Derrick Lively because man he’s just a player that everyone roots for. Well, I think now what this does for me and my opinion is now it just opens up possibilities. Like I mean I have I have a tweet that I just tweeted out like a a month ago that was like protect Cooper and Lively at all cost like the combo of those two guys. And now I just don’t think that’s the case. I just think it is, hey, like we love Lively. We want him to be a part of this future, but it’s not like locked in like in cement anymore. Now it opens it up. In my opinion, it opens up AD trade possibilities to where if you’re trading AD somewhere and a young big is on the table, I’m not shying away from that because I have Lively. or when you’re looking at the NBA draft coming up and you land at seven or eight and Michael Brown’s already off the board after Peterson goes one or two and there’s like a really good, you know, big there. I’m not shying away from that big because hey, we have Derek Lively. Um, so like I I just think that’s the type of thing it just opens up these big man opportunities in the trades and drafting and free agency future plans, who fits around Coupe, just all what you possibly do with Gaffford. I mean, Gaffford’s just 27. So, I think it affects that too, especially if you plan on trading Anthony Davis. So, that’s my only It just opens up a lot of different paths they can go down. Now, the pivot for Lively now is exactly and that sucks by the way. I’m not saying that in like a positive way. I don’t I don’t want to open a move on from a player we know that can play in the NBA finals as a 20-year-old. I know. It’s like I wish you could have like a position locked in and say, you know what, don’t have to worry about my my big man spot for the next decade. Now you have to. The pivot is exactly what you just said though. It’s going from expectation with Lively to hope, right? You’re pivoting to to hope now. You hope that it works out and if it does then awesome. Then you have a center that can be can anchor a defense, can play pick and roll with with Cooper flag, can play pick and roll with whoever whatever guard they end up bringing in, can be a really good passer in, you know, a pick and roll or in a in a zone like system where he’s he’s the guy in the middle. You just have this this great personality and person in the locker room too, a leader. You have all those things, but now it’s turned into hope instead of expectation. You don’t expect to have that. you don’t have that cemented in as this is the guy next to Cooper flag that is cemented in. Now it’s just a little bit more of a question going in. And I hope it still is. I’m still I’m still if if Miss Cohen’s class listen right now. I’m still on the hype squad. I apologize for my joke earlier if you’re listening, but I but I still am on the hype I still am on the hype squad. No, I want it to Yeah, I want it to work out so bad. I mean, I’ve seen some people are already online like, “Well, maybe that means we can get him at a cheaper extension.” Um I mean, maybe. I don’t know. I mean, obviously, yeah, right. There could be stipulations on injury, but you never want that. You don’t want to put stipulations on injury. That means your player is not going to play. Yeah. Like, let’s say hypothetically you don’t see him for a long time this year, and the next time you see him playing at a high level is like training camp next year or preseason. And then they have, you know, not too long until they have to figure out the extension. you know, live camp probably has more of a decision at that point of do I just play this out? Do I take a cheaper extension? Um, I was looking at his draft with the extension stuff. There’s a chance like for those that are saying, “Oh, it could be a a smaller extension.” There’s a chance you sign him to a smaller extension and then he ends up working out like what Steph Curry was the beginning of their run, right? To bring up that again where he that he signed at a smaller deal because they didn’t think that he was going to be healthy. they were taking a risk and it ends up working out exponentially better than they thought or you sign you sign a guy and it’s Jonathan Isaac and now you’re going okay well now what do we do with jersey sales skyrocket who’s actually he’s been playing better this year but he’s got this non-g guaranteed deal for the next couple years I was looking at his draft class uh Laval’s and I was like oh I wonder in the first round how many other players have played under 100 games um see if you can tell me a common denominator with some of these guys u there’s only eight players in the first round these are the eight players under 100 games play. It’s played under 100 games so far. Um Kobe Brown, uh Dariq Whitehead, Noah Clowny, Jaylen Hood, Shafino, uh Kobe Buffkin, Lively, Jet Howard, and Taylor Hendris. Um how many of those guys aren’t even on an NBA roster right now? Yeah. Right. Right. Um and then you’re looking at Taylor Hendricks who literally broke his leg in half in Dallas and missed a whole entire year. So, you’re kind of looking at like Lively, Jet Howard, Noah Clowny as like these guys that have played under 100 games. And it sucks because Lively is way better than those other two guys. He should not be in this in this category of th this amount of games played. And yeah, that that part sucks. And it’s like I look at it before and uh it’s funny. I wrote down this name earlier. I was like, um, like who who in this draft class, like if Dallas called right now and said, “Hey, we will you slip um swap this player for Derek Lively.” And I wrote down Anthony Black’s name. Coincidence, Anthony Black was playing really well tonight. Um, and it has the past like few days or week in Orlando. But I’m like, if you called Orlando and said, “Hey, Derek Lively for Anthony Black.” Like, Orlando’s probably saying no, right? Like I mean, they’re probably saying no. Like I mean Scoot was a high draft pick but like you go back to like when Lively was healthy and if they called Portland and said you know they have clinging now but it’s like Scoot for Lively like they might do that at one point and now it’s like they probably not they’re not. So that’s why I’m saying like I you just keep Lively at this point. You ride it out and you try to get him healthy and you take it up until that deadline and you know mid to late October next year. Turn your expectation into hope and we’ll see what happens over this next calendar year basically until October and we’ll see what happens with with Derrick Lively’s future coming up. What about the future of the other Mavs bigs? What does this change for Anthony Davis in his trade? Is Anthony Davis coming back? He’s apparently practicing today on Wednesday. What about Gaffford? We’ll talk about that and more coming up. 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Promo code locked on NBA for 20% off. Stock up now before the heat hits hard and keep your body and mind performing at their best with Drip Drop. Shut it down. Let’s go home. All right, Isaac talking about the Mavs bigs. the unfortunate they’re gladly news that happened today and uh we just wait and see. The other thing is we could be overreacting to all of this and he could be back in two weeks. I mean, who knows? I don’t I don’t think that we’re overreacting to it, but we’ll see. Who knows with this this Mavs team, medical staff, the injury, luck that the Mavs have had. It just is it’s all over the place and so unpredictable. Listen, the Mavs aren’t going to win a ton of games this year. So if if there’s a year right now for this to happen, I guess I’m just trying like you know what if everyone was healthy right now in playing really good basketball and now you get this kind of news about Lively. It would really suck because it’s like I think we need Lively to, you know, go on a deep playoff run. Um AD would probably be more pissed because that means more games at the five. Um, but since you are probably going to be at the bottom or near the bottom, then let’s get get the foot right. Lively 26 is a lot of something. It’s not a lot of NBA wins. That’s that’s the expected win loss according to cleaning the glass right now. Woo. Yeah, I know. What a what a year. Anthony Davis, according to Mark Stein, he is ramping up and he is going to be practicing on Wednesday with the with the hopes that he will play in the Mavs next games. Isaac, who do the Mavs play next? play the Lakers and that would be a drastic mistake to bring him back at the Lakers. I don’t think he comes back on Friday. He I think he has to come back on Saturday if he comes back. I still think he’s I still think against all best judgment, best interest, and everything, I think he comes back for that Lakers game because I think that that is he is him and his people will be dead set on him wanting to play in that game. No, no, guys, you can’t like just all the optics of it, you can’t do it. He was already not in the best of shape. I’ve said this before. I don’t think he’s probably gotten in crazy like tip-top shape while he’s been out with a calf injury. So, you’re gonna bring him back his first game, probably not in the best of basketball shape coming off the injury to face Luca Donuch. Like, that just sounds like you’re just asking you’re just asking for it to be just flat out embarrassed or god forbid, you know, like an injury happen. Just no. Just wait for wait for the Clippers game. He can’t bring him back first game against the Lakers. That’s what they should do. But we’ll see what they’re going to do. Nico’s not there anymore. So I have hope. I But we don’t know who’s Nico would be fighting tooth and nails right now. Like no, he is playing. He would not care what like he would make it happen. Yeah. But if but if Anthony Davis and his team and like Rich Paw’s agent want him, they’ve been wanting to come back to all of them. He’s been cleared and fine. So yeah, it it’s past their hands at this point. We don’t know how Dumont is going to fix these optics, right? That’s the other thing. It’s like, hey, he could he could think, well, Anthony Davis comes back against the Lakers and if he looks good, then all of a sudden it fixes some of our optics and that is like not likely to happen. But um yeah, does this lively news change Anthony any Anthony Anthony Davis trade thoughts, ideas that you’ve had? Kind of mentioned it before, but it doesn’t not one bit. No. Um because it’s still already it’s still a lost season. It’s not like hey the lively trade happened. I mean the lively um injury happened and now the season’s like a lost season. No, it was already decided on kind of. So, um I mean it might open up with like some of the packages you could get back like what I was saying earlier of like you’re talking to a team and you know one of the things was like young big and that you maybe not have been as fully interested in before but now you are. That’s about the only thing but I still think it’s a a good likelihood that AD’s getting traded. The other portion of this that I’m looking at now is can the Mavs afford to move on from Gaffford? And no, I think that that I think this affects Gaffford more than it does AD. I think I mean I don’t want to say it takes him completely off the table, but I feel like you should just take him off the table for a little bit. um you know for the for the right deal and you obviously entertain it but it’s like I mean yeah I don’t think we’re going to see Lively for a while so you need a big out there unless hey Moose you ready to play 40 minutes a night you and Dwight let’s do this all these changes and you know I still got my dog Dwight pal I still got and you know what I mean I still you can’t and we’ve said this before like even if you do trade off some pieces can’t fully bottom out. So, Gaffrey is under contract and all that. So, I think you lean towards keeping him more than shopping, but I’m also not hanging up on everybody right now. No, it does up the price for Gaffford though. They the Mavs need to keep him for now because yeah, they don’t have healthy bigs outside of Daniel Gaffford. Yeah. No, I mean and Musa Cay and that’s that’s pretty much what you’re looking at. So, I think it changes more for Gaffford than it does AD. Um, it’s just unfortunate for Lively and it’s unfortunate for just roster building moving forward of um, man, you would just love to have that Lively fully healthy. You’re looking at Lively and Cooper, the Duke boys like as this like young uh, front court duo and hopefully you still get that. Uh, but this is definitely a dent in it because he does have that label now. you can’t or you can’t avoid it of he is an injury-prone big and let’s see what the next 12 months hold for him. Yeah, we’re not doing the Derrick Lively actually is an injury-prone podcast this summer. I don’t think we can get away with that one. No, I mean if I couldn’t do it this past summer definitely. Hey, I did it with Anthony Davis. I tried to make the case. Whoa. Bold move. I made the case that he’s not Kawawaii, not not Embiid. That was the case I tried to make. He’s He’s not that level of injury-prone. Okay. Well, this season didn’t help him. Did not help at all. But we have not been helped in any of our takes and any of the times that we tried to put our confidence in the Mavericks this year has not really panned out. Besides my stock in Max Christie, our stock in Cooper flag, our our PJ stock really got it. Yeah, PJ’s play had a really good year. Him and Maxi really good fun. Tomorrow talking about things we’re thankful for with the Dallas Mavericks. Come back, join us. It’s going to be a fun one. Isaac and I and we’re going to we spent way too much time trying to figure out which Thanksgiving food each Maverick is because the maps have had different kinds of impact and so we’ll talk about who’s had the most impact on the maps coming up. Wait till you see the food I have for Nico Harrison. Yeah, I got one I got one for Nico as well, guys. Thanks for for hanging out with us on locked on maps. Peace out. Boom.

Dereck Lively’s injury has major implications for the Dallas Mavericks as they navigate their NBA season, with questions arising about the future of the Mavs’ frontcourt alongside stars like Cooper Flagg, Anthony Davis, and Kyrie Irving. Get all the latest updates and reactions to this critical development, plus what it means for the team’s roster moves, upcoming challenges, and NBA trade rumors.

Hosted by Nick Angstadt and Isaac Harris, this episode of Locked On Mavs dives deep into the health status of Dereck Lively II, the impact on Daniel Gafford, and the ripple effect on stars such as Anthony Davis and Cooper Flagg. Listen as the hosts discuss how the Mavs may approach the rest of the NBA season, what this means for key players including Kyrie Irving, PJ Washington, and Nico Harrison, and what fans can expect if Anthony Davis returns against top teams like the Los Angeles Lakers. Other topics include the roles of Coach Jason Kidd, Mark Cuban, and Patrick Dumont in navigating these challenges, and the implications for future moves involving Klay Thompson, Naji Marshall, D’Angelo Russell, and more.

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0:00 Derek Lively Injury Update
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