{"id":506564,"date":"2026-01-13T15:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=506564"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:08:51","slug":"anthony-davis-will-miss-several-months-for-hand-procedure","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/anthony-davis-will-miss-several-months-for-hand-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Davis will miss several months for hand procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Mavericks center Anthony Davis is expected to undergo a procedure to repair ligament damage in his left hand and be out for several months.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony\u2019s campaign is over in Mavs, given the recovery time and Dallas\u2019 direction at 15-25 and 12<sup>th<\/sup> in the West Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since it became clear on Friday how serious Anthony\u2019s hand problem is, Dallas has begun trade talks with multiple franchises. If Davis joins a postseason contender \u2013 such as the Raptors or the Hawks \u2013 Anthony could play again during the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavs star sustained his injury while defending Jazz\u2019s Lauri Markkanen on a drive late in his team\u2019s road defeat against Utah, a match in which the center finished with 21 points, 11 boards, 4 assists, and 1 block in 35 minutes on the court.<\/p>\n<p>Several problems limited Anthony to only 29 regular-campaign matches as Dallas player since he landed on the team from the Lakers in a blockbuster deal that featured Luka Doncic.<\/p>\n<p>Mavs record with Davis is 10-10, while without him, they are 5-15, but the organization is looking to rebuild around Cooper Flagg for the future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: Dallas Mavericks&#39; Anthony Davis is likely to undergo surgery to repair ligament damage in his left hand and miss several months, sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShamsCharania<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The Mavs are having renewed Davis trade talks with multiple interested teams, sources said. If moved to a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gcAcs5vcNX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gcAcs5vcNX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/2011139659401756748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 13, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Mavericks center Anthony Davis is expected to undergo a procedure to repair ligament damage in his left hand and be out for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":506565,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17077,16748],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[19253,17975],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Mavericks star will be out for several months.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/506564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/506564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506568,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/506564\/revisions\/506568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506564"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=506564"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=506564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}