{"id":42585,"date":"2025-10-02T05:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mavericks-gafford-out-ankle-sprain-sidelines-him-for-2-3-weeks\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T05:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:08:26","slug":"mavericks-gafford-out-ankle-sprain-sidelines-him-for-2-3-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/mavericks-gafford-out-ankle-sprain-sidelines-him-for-2-3-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks&#8217; Gafford out: Ankle sprain sidelines him for 2-3 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mavericks center Daniel Gafford to miss several weeks with injury<\/h2>\n<p>Dallas Mavericks center Daniel Gafford will be out for two to three weeks due to a sprained ankle suffered during the first preseason practice, according to coach Jason Kidd.<\/p>\n<p>This injury casts doubt on Gafford&#8217;s participation in the regular season opener against the San Antonio Spurs, scheduled for October 22.<\/p>\n<p>Gafford already missed the last two months of the 2024-25 season due to a Grade 3 sprain of the medial collateral ligament in his right knee, an injury he suffered on February 10th.<\/p>\n<p>Since his arrival in Dallas before the 2023 trade deadline, Gafford has averaged 11.9 points with a 72.7% field goal percentage, 6.8 rebounds, and 1.8 blocks, sharing the starting position with Dereck Lively II.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, Gafford signed a three-year, $54 million contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, P.J. Washington also missed Wednesday&#8217;s practice after hitting his head, but Kidd indicated that the veteran forward could return after the team&#8217;s day off on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mavericks center Daniel Gafford to miss several weeks with injury Dallas Mavericks center Daniel Gafford will be out for two to three weeks due to a sprained ankle suffered during the first preseason practice, according to coach Jason Kidd. This injury casts doubt on Gafford&#8217;s participation in the regular season opener against the San Antonio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4625,290,593,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-42585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nba","7":"tag-daniel-gafford","8":"tag-injury","9":"tag-mavericks","10":"tag-nba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}