{"id":611201,"date":"2026-02-19T08:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/611201\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:04:27","slug":"kyrie-irving-announces-he-will-miss-rest-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/611201\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving announces he will miss rest of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 18, 2026, 2:22 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving will miss the remainder of the season.Irving is recovering from an ACL tear he suffered nearly a year ago.The former Duke star expressed gratitude for the support from the Mavericks organization and fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">What was supposed to be a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/ncaab\/teams\/duke-blue-devils\/1388\/\" data-autotag=\"d9e0b712-2f57-4d7c-998e-25a7ac4fbc0d\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Duke<\/a> connection on the floor for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/dallas-mavericks\/6\/\" data-autotag=\"e6751d65-4a81-4131-973c-176d23467b30\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> this season will never happen after all, as the Mavericks announced that Kyrie Irving will be out for the season after missing the first half due to injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A former Duke star and fellow No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft, Irving tore his ACL almost a year ago, and while he said the decision to sit out the rest of the season \u201cwasn\u2019t easy, but it was the right one,\u201d he\u2019s more determined than ever to return next season at full health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI am grateful for the Mavericks organization, my teammates and our fans for their continued support throughout the process,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dallasmavs\/status\/2024141438477365734?s=20\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">Irving said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cI am looking forward to coming back stronger next season. The belief and drive I have inside only grows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI wanted to send a huge shout-out 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<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 18, 2026, 2:22 p.m. ET Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving will miss the remainder of the season.Irving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[72400,7,686,149,4057,166,6,74643,73480,72404,72464,73149,81166,72444,72422,72405,72406,72558,72403],"class_list":{"0":"post-611201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-mavericks","12":"tag-dallasmavericks","13":"tag-mavericks","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-sstssportscollegedukemens-basketball","16":"tag-sstsnmens-basketball","17":"tag-tagbasketball","18":"tag-tagdallas-mavericks","19":"tag-tagduke-blue-devils-mens-basketball","20":"tag-tagkyrie-irving","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnba","23":"tag-tagoverall-positive","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-tagstory-highlights-ai-enabled","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116096261659693279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611201","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=611201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}