{"id":604624,"date":"2026-02-15T14:05:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/604624\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T14:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:05:44","slug":"mavericks-naji-marshall-daniel-gafford-leave-lakers-game-in-fourth-quarter-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/604624\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks\u2019 Naji Marshall, Daniel Gafford leave Lakers game in fourth quarter due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The already short-handed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\">Mavericks<\/a> saw two players leave Thursday\u2019s game in Los Angeles early due to injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Both Naji Marshall and Daniel Gafford left the Mavericks-Lakers matchup in the fourth quarter. According to the Mavericks, Marshall was ruled out with a left foot strain. Meanwhile, Gafford was out with right ankle soreness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dallas already has a long list of injuries to monitor. Rookie star Cooper Flagg was notably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2026\/02\/11\/dallas-mavericks-cooper-flagg-injury-lakers-rising-stars-all-star\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2026\/02\/11\/dallas-mavericks-cooper-flagg-injury-lakers-rising-stars-all-star\/\">ruled out for Thursday\u2019s game and the weekend\u2019s Rising Stars challenge with a foot strain.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Mavericks were in a back-and-forth battle with the Lakers, until the fourth quarter when Los Angeles began to pull away.<\/p>\n<p>Mavericks<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Be the smartest Mavericks fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">This post will be updated when more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Mavericks coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The already short-handed Mavericks saw two players leave Thursday\u2019s game in Los Angeles early due to injury. Both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,15161,166,6,66],"class_list":["post-604624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-injury-update","tag-mavericks","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116075034163829085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604624","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=604624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}