{"id":675747,"date":"2026-03-24T04:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/675747\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:28:14","slug":"mavericks-center-daniel-gafford-exits-warriors-matchup-with-right-shoulder-contusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/675747\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks center Daniel Gafford exits Warriors matchup with right shoulder contusion"},"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>were without a pivotal piece of their lineup to close out Monday\u2019s meeting with the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">As overtime began at American Airlines Center, the Mavericks ruled center Daniel Gafford out <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeACurtis2\/status\/2036295910569697721?s=20\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeACurtis2\/status\/2036295910569697721?s=20\">with a right shoulder contusion.<\/a> Gafford sustained the injury late in the fourth quarter when he collided with Draymond Green as he chased a rebound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Gafford has missed several games this season due to injury. He finished Monday\u2019s game with 20 points, seven rebounds and five assists. The Mavericks had to play the entire overtime period without the center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">This post will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/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\"><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 were without a pivotal piece of their lineup to close out Monday\u2019s meeting with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,149,479,164,4025,4024,15161,166,6,66,255],"class_list":["post-675747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golden-state-warriors","tag-basketball","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-golden-state","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-goldenstate","tag-goldenstatewarriors","tag-injury-update","tag-mavericks","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-warriors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116282268782069201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675747","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=675747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}