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Mavs' Dante Exum Expected to Return vs. Raptors After 13-Game Injury Absence

After missing 13 consecutive games to knee bursitis, Dallas Mavericks guard Dante Exum is listed as "probable" for Wednesday night's games against the Toronto Raptors. Exum's return couldn't be at a better time for the Mavs.
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Mavs' Dante Exum Expected to Return vs. Raptors After 13-Game Injury Absence
Mavs' Dante Exum Expected to Return vs. Raptors After 13-Game Injury Absence

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After losing back-to-back games in demoralizing fashion against the Indiana Pacers and Cleveland Cavaliers, the Dallas Mavericks are looking for a spark on Wednesday night when they take on the Toronto Raptors.

Perhaps that boost can come from 3-and-D guard/wing Dante Exum, who is listed as "probable" on the latest injury report and is expected to make his long-awaited return to action tonight after missing 13 consecutive games due to right knee bursitis.

Through 32 games played this season, Exum is averaging 9.2 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists while shooting 57.1 percent overall and 47.7 percent from deep while also playing solid perimeter defense as well. The seventh-year veteran has been a feel-good success story this season, as he spent the previous two years working on his game overseas before returning to the NBA.

Exum was especially productive for the Mavs in December, as he started all 14 games he played in and averaged 14.5 points, 3.6 rebounds and 4.4 assists while shooting an eye-popping 60.8 percent from the field and 53.3 percent from deep.

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With Exum returning, Mavs head coach Jason Kidd will now have another option at his disposal when it comes to mixing and matching different lineups. Plugging Exum into lineups where Tim Hardaway Jr. would normally be might be the move that gets the Mavs back on track. We'll see how much rust Exum has to knock off in Toronto on Wednesday.

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Dalton Trigg
DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.

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