{"id":747779,"date":"2026-05-30T08:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/747779\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:45:19","slug":"kyrie-irving-gives-an-update-about-his-acl-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/747779\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving gives an update about his ACL injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mavericks star Kyrie Irving is almost back to full health following an ACL tear that cost him the 2025-26 season. Now 34, Irving feels more efficient after his recovery period and is preparing to make his highly anticipated return to the court for Dallas next year.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrie Irving missed out on the whole 2025-26 campaign with the Dallas Mavericks after sustaining an ACL tear.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2024-25 season when he played for the last time, Irving played 49 times and has averaged 24.8 points, 4.9 rebounds and 4.6 assists, playing 36 minutes per match.<\/p>\n<p>Australian point guard is yet to debut with Cooper Flagg, but it seems that it will finally happen next season.<\/p>\n<p>As Irving revealed on his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2060588649650299123\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitch<\/a> account during a live stream, he is close to be at 100% regarding his fitness and health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am definitely close to being over at 100% in terms of my ACL recovery. I\u2019m so grateful that I\u2019ve had the time to heal everything,&#8221; Irving said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With time I became kind of tired, daily work, routine that we lived for years, minor injuries over the whole body, it left a mark, but I understand whilst the game is slowing down for me, I learn how to be more efficient with the ball,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Irving will start the next season as a 34-year old, turning 34 this March, joining Dallas in 2022 from the Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/plus?utm_source=basketnews_com&amp;utm_medium=bn_plus&amp;utm_id=UA-259273-31&amp;utm_campaign=banners_free_content_for_not_members_bottom_4\" class=\"banners_paid_content_info_block_white banners-paid-content-info-block-white\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bn-plus-img img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bn-plus.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Like what we are doing? Support us by becoming BN+ member.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                If you like our content, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=basketnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> and add us as your preferred source. It helps us a lot, and we are committed to delivering you the very latest basketball news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mavericks star Kyrie Irving is almost back to full health following an ACL tear that cost him the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,6],"class_list":["post-747779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-mavericks","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116662654136558959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747779","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=747779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}