{"id":42855,"date":"2025-10-02T17:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mavericks-gafford-to-miss-2-3-weeks-with-ankle-sprain\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:22:22","slug":"mavericks-gafford-to-miss-2-3-weeks-with-ankle-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/mavericks-gafford-to-miss-2-3-weeks-with-ankle-sprain\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks&#8217; Gafford to miss 2-3 weeks with ankle sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Daniel Gafford, Mavericks center, suffers ankle sprain<\/h2>\n<p>Dallas Mavericks center Daniel Gafford will be out of action for two to three weeks due to a sprained ankle suffered on Tuesday during the first training camp practice, according to coach Jason Kidd on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This injury puts Gafford&#8217;s participation in the Mavs&#8217; season opener on October 22 against the San Antonio Spurs in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Gafford already missed the last two months of the 2024-25 Mavs season, which was marked by injuries, after suffering a Grade 3 medial collateral ligament (MCL) sprain in his right knee on February 10.<\/p>\n<p>Since his arrival in Dallas before the 2023 trade deadline, Gafford has averaged 11.9 points on 72.7% shooting, 6.8 rebounds, and 1.8 blocks, sharing the starting center position with Dereck Lively II. This summer, he signed a three-year, $54 million contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>P.J. Washington also missed Wednesday&#8217;s practice after hitting his head, but Kidd said the veteran forward could return after the team&#8217;s day off on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Gafford, Mavericks center, suffers ankle sprain Dallas Mavericks center Daniel Gafford will be out of action for two to three weeks due to a sprained ankle suffered on Tuesday during the first training camp practice, according to coach Jason Kidd on Wednesday. This injury puts Gafford&#8217;s participation in the Mavs&#8217; season opener on October [&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-42855","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\/42855","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=42855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}