{"id":625105,"date":"2026-02-26T01:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625105\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:25:49","slug":"p-j-washington-ruled-out-daniel-gafford-doubtful-vs-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625105\/","title":{"rendered":"P.J. Washington ruled out, Daniel Gafford doubtful vs. Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> could be without a few key players for Thursday night\u2019s matchup with the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeACurtis2\/status\/2026800488218304626?s=20\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeACurtis2\/status\/2026800488218304626?s=20\">According to the team\u2019s injury report,<\/a> forward P.J. Washington is ruled out for the game with a left ankle sprain. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/cooper-flagg\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/cooper-flagg\/\">Rookie standout Cooper Flagg<\/a> (left midfoot sprain) is also ruled out, while center Daniel Gafford (right ankle injury management) is doubtful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Washington <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2026\/02\/24\/khris-middleton-ruled-out-for-remainder-of-mavs-nets-with-right-shoulder-stinger\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2026\/02\/24\/khris-middleton-ruled-out-for-remainder-of-mavs-nets-with-right-shoulder-stinger\/\">sustained his ankle injury late in Dallas\u2019 123-114 win over the Brooklyn Nets <\/a>on Tuesday. He was in the process of catching a Marvin Bagley pass in the paint when it appeared he rolled his left ankle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Washington wasn\u2019t the only Mavericks player injured Tuesday. Forward Khris Middleton left the game with a right shoulder stinger after taking a bump in the second quarter. The Mavericks officially deemed Middleton questionable for Thursday\u2019s game against Sacramento.<\/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\">Mavericks-Kings would be the fifth consecutive game Flagg has missed due to injury. He last suited up on Feb. 10 in a 120-111 loss to the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Ryan Nembhard, Moussa Cisse and Miles Kelly were all ruled questionable for Thursday to round out Dallas\u2019 latest injury report.<\/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 Dallas Mavericks could be without a few key players for Thursday night\u2019s matchup with the Sacramento Kings.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,225,149,15161,4056,166,6,986,477,4055],"class_list":["post-625105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento-kings","tag-basketball","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-injury-update","tag-kings","tag-mavericks","tag-nba","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sacramentokings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116134329187573617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625105","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=625105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}