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NBA Injury Expert Details Dallas Mavs’ Kyrie Irving Heel Contusion, Possible Timetable for Return

DallasBasketball.com consultant and certified athletic trainer Jeff Stotts gives his initial thoughts on Dallas Mavericks star point guard Kyrie Irving's heel contusion injury.
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NBA Injury Expert Details Dallas Mavs’ Kyrie Irving Heel Contusion, Possible Timetable for Return
NBA Injury Expert Details Dallas Mavs’ Kyrie Irving Heel Contusion, Possible Timetable for Return

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The Dallas Mavericks dodged a bullet on Friday night, as Kyrie Irving's scary leg injury was deemed as being a "heel contusion" on Saturday. This was one of the better scenarios the Mavs could've hoped for, especially when considering how bad the replays of the injury looked with Dwight Powell falling on Irving's foot.

Upon hearing the initial Irving injury news, we reached out to DallasBasketball.com consultant Jeff Stotts, who is a certified athletic trainer and the owner of InStreetClothes.com, to get a better idea of what to expect from Irving's heel contusion going forward.

"The term 'heel contusion' is a bit vague and could be a myriad of things," Stotts told DBcom. "The fact that we have heard [Kyrie] is in 'significant pain' makes me think it will be longer than the average time associated with general heel contusions (around two games). Worst case scenario would be a significant bone injury, but that doesn’t seem to be happening here."

With that being said, one would think that Irving, at the very least, would be missing the Mavs' next two games against the Memphis Grizzlies and the Los Angeles Lakers. And he might miss even more time than that, but even so, the Mavs are just happy that this didn't end up being a season-ending type of injury. They will gladly and patiently wait for Irving to return with the grand plan being to have him 100 percent healthy come playoff time.

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Heading into Monday night's game against the struggling Memphis Grizzlies at FedExForum, the Mavs are 13-8 and currently sit in third place in the Western Conference standings. Dallas lost to Memphis on Dec. 1 at American Airlines Center with Luka Doncic sitting out due to the birth of his daughter. Now, it looks like Irving will miss the upcoming matchup.

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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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