{"id":462230,"date":"2026-02-18T17:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/462230\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:09:14","slug":"kyrie-irving-to-sit-out-rest-of-dallas-mavericks-season-team-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/462230\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving to sit out rest of Dallas Mavericks season, team announces"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Mavericks<\/a> announced Wednesday morning that guard Kyrie Irving<\/a> will not return to play during the 2025-26 NBA season as he continues his recovery from ACL surgery performed last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Irving has made steady progress in rehabilitation, according to the team, and will remain actively engaged with the Mavs through the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision wasn\u2019t easy, but it\u2019s the right one,\u201d Irving said in a statement. \u201cI am grateful for the Mavericks organization, my teammates and our fans for their continued support throughout the process. I am looking forward to coming back stronger next season. The belief and drive I have inside only grows.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I wanted to send a huge shoutout 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

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Irving will continue his rehabilitation under the supervision of the Mavericks\u2019 medical and performance staff for the remainder of the season, the team said. <\/p>\n

Find more Mavericks coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks announced Wednesday morning that guard Kyrie Irving will not return to play during the 2025-26…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5117],"tags":[2155,196,5047,147,5278,5,1575,12672,2291,4,197],"class_list":["post-462230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-stars","tag-brief","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallas-stars","tag-dallasstars","tag-hockey","tag-injury-update","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-mavericks","tag-nhl","tag-stars"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116092742317765401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}