{"id":535013,"date":"2026-01-14T01:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/535013\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:01:19","slug":"anthony-davis-wont-need-hand-surgery-will-be-re-evaluted-in-6-weeks-mavs-renewing-trade-talks-to-move-him-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/535013\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Davis won’t need hand surgery, will be re-evaluted in 6 weeks; Mavs renewing trade talks to move him: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Davis won’t need surgery to repair ligament damage in his left hand that he sustained last week in a loss to the Utah Jazz<\/a>, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania<\/a>, who updated his previous report from earlier Tuesday<\/a>, in which he originally said the Dallas Mavericks star was likely to undergo a procedure that would sideline him for several months.<\/p>\n

Davis, who reportedly received a second opinion on the injury Tuesday, appeared to take issue with the initial news. He cryptically retorted via X<\/a> within the hour of Charania’s first report, “Yall better stop listening to all these lies on these apps!”<\/p>\n

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Now the expectation is that Davis will be re-evaluated in six weeks, per Charania.<\/p>\n

But Charania continued to report Tuesday<\/a> that the Mavericks are still considering dealing the 10-time All-Star, even though he’s expected to be out through the NBA’s Feb. 5 trade deadline. The 15-25 Mavs renewed trade talks with multiple interested teams once the severity of injury was known, per Charania<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Davis, 32, has been considered a top trade target<\/a> for a while now<\/a>, although his latest setback could affect his value. It’s important to note that, after this year’s draft, the Mavericks won’t have control of their first-round pick again until 2031. Previously interested teams who double as playoff contenders include the Toronto Raptors and Atlanta Hawks, according to ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Last season, Davis was a centerpiece in one of the league’s most shocking deals ever<\/a> when the Los Angeles Lakers shipped him to Dallas as part of a three-team trade that delivered five-time All-NBA first-team guard Luka Don\u010di\u0107 to L.A.<\/p>\n

While Don\u010di\u0107 has become the face of the franchise Davis won a championship with during the 2020 season, Davis has had a turbulent experience with the Mavericks.<\/p>\n

The big man has appeared in just 29 regular-season games, as well as two play-in games, since infamous Dallas general manager Nico Harrison acquired him last February.<\/p>\n

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Following the trade, the former No. 1 overall pick was healing up from an abdominal injury. He hurried back and instantly starred with a dominant first half on Feb. 8, 2025 against the Houston Rockets, but an adductor strain related to the injury he was recovering from spoiled his night.<\/p>\n

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He missed the following six weeks.<\/p>\n

Then, during an April 2 game versus the Hawks, Mavericks teammate Daniel Gafford accidentally elbowed Davis in his right eye. The injury ultimately required offseason surgery to repair a detached retina<\/a>, and now Davis wears protective eyewear on the floor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Five games into this season, on Oct. 29, 2025 versus the Indiana Pacers, Davis suffered a left calf strain<\/a> that kept him out 14 games<\/a> after Mavericks owner Patrick Dumont reportedly delayed green-lighting the Kentucky product’s return<\/a> until the team had medical data indicating Davis wasn’t at risk of aggravating the injury. Along the way, Harrison was fired<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Davis came back in late November, only to then exit the Mavs’ Christmas Day game against the Golden State Warriors with right groin spasms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Davis was back in the lineup on New Year’s Day, but he picked up his hand injury a week later while defending Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen on a baseline drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Injuries have been a thorn in Davis’ side throughout his career, which started with New Orleans in 2012, continued in Los Angeles, and has practically gone dormant in Dallas.<\/p>\n

Davis is due $58.5 million next season, per ESPN, which reported last week<\/a> that he has a player option for $62.8 million in 2027-28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Davis won’t need surgery to repair ligament damage in his left hand that he sustained last week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3793],"tags":[495,208,7,10697,686,149,4057,2619,130,164,194,126,976,251,150,368,166,6,478,567,490,476,427],"class_list":["post-535013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-anthony-davis","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-basketball","tag-charania","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-daniel-gafford","tag-espn","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-houston-rockets","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-lauri-markkanen","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-mavericks","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans","tag-shams-charania","tag-the-mavericks","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-utah-jazz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115890755224556835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}