{"id":609981,"date":"2026-02-18T16:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/609981\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:16:14","slug":"kyrie-irving-out-for-the-season-mavericks-announce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/609981\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving out for the season, Mavericks announce"},"content":{"rendered":"

DALLAS \u2014 Dallas Mavericks star Kyrie Irving will miss the rest of the NBA season as he recovers from ACL reconstruction surgery.<\/p>\n

The team announced the news on Wednesday morning, saying that Irving will remain \u201cactively engaged with the team through the remainder of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Irving tore the ACL in his left knee during a game in March 2025 and had surgery to repair the torn ligament<\/a> that same month. He hasn\u2019t played this season. The team says Irving has made \u201csteady progress\u201d in his rehabilitation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision wasn\u2019t easy, but it\u2019s the right one,\u201d Irving said in a statement. \u201cI am grateful for the Mavericks organization, my teammates and our fans for their continued support throughout the process. I am looking forward to coming back stronger next season.\u201d<\/p>\n

This news comes after the Mavericks traded the oft-injured All-Star Anthony Davis<\/a> to the Washington Wizards along with Jaden Hardy, D\u2019Angelo Russell and Dante Exum in an eight-player trade.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are currently 19-35 this season and are on a nine-game losing streak. The team\u2019s next game will see them travel to Minnesota to take on the Timberwolves on Friday at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 Dallas Mavericks star Kyrie Irving will miss the rest of the NBA season as he recovers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1981,1970,7,686,55317,19021,6,67,66,2098],"class_list":{"0":"post-609981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-app-professional-sports","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dfw-what-you-need-to-know","13":"tag-katharine-finnerty","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-texas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116092535356030469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609981","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=609981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}