{"id":706285,"date":"2026-04-09T02:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706285\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:21:16","slug":"mavericks-announce-klay-thompson-decision-for-suns-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706285\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Announce Klay Thompson Decision for Suns Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thompson joins a long list of injured players for the Mavs. The silver lining, however, is that Flagg will play against Phoenix despite dealing with a left wrist sprain.<\/p>\n<p>As for Thompson, it does not appear that the five-time All-Star has suffered a new injury. His absence on Wednesday is merely for rest purposes after he logged 26 minutes in Tuesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/dal-vs-lac-0022501156\/box-score\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">116-103 loss<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nba\/los-angeles-clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Clippers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson\u2019s next chance to return will be on Friday in a road matchup against the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nba\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a>. The Mavs will then close out their season on Sunday with a home game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nba\/chicago-bulls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thompson joins a long list of injured players for the Mavs. The silver lining, however, is that Flagg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-706285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallasmavericks","12":"tag-mavericks","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116372365872230974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706285","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=706285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}