Mavs lose Kyrie Irving (ACL) for the rest of the season

The All-Star Base of the Mavericks, Kyrie Irving, suffered an anterior cross ligament break in his left knee that ended the season, sources told AM850.

The All-Star of the Dallas Mavericks, Kyrie Irving, suffered a breakage of the anterior cross ligament of his left knee that ended the seasonsources told AM850.

Irving He suffered the injury at the end of the first quarter of the defeat of the Mavericks against the Sacramento Kings on Monday night.

The injury is a devastating blow for the Mavericks season, since Irving He was the best general player of the team this season and appeared in 50 of the 62 games of the team this season. Irvingwho was part of his ninth All-Star team of the NBA in February, is the only NBA player this season that averages at least 20 points, 40% in three-point and 90% shots from the free throw line.

This is the fifth campaign of his 14 years of career in which he scored 20 points per game, fired 40% in triples and 90% in free throws, the second largest amount of all time, behind Stephen Curry by Golden State, according to AM850 Research.

Irving averaged 24.7 points, 4.8 rebounds and 4.6 assists this season. It has a $ 43 million player option for the 2025-26 season, the last year of a three-year contract for $ 126 million that signed in 2023.

The diagnosis of Irving It is the last decline for a team of the Mavericks that no longer has the Superstar Anthony Davis (who left his only game with the team on February 8 due to a distension of the adductor after being acquired from Los Angeles Lakers by Luka Doncic), as well as with Duch Lively II, Daniel Gafford and Caleb Martin.

Dallas also lost the Escort Reserva Jaden Hardy for a right ankle sprain in the middle of the third quarter.

The Mavericks fell to 32-30 after Monday’s defeat and have 3.5 advantage games over the Phoenix Suns for the tenth place in the classification of the West Conference.