MASSIVE Injury Update - This Has Mavericks Fans CONCERNED...| Dallas Mavericks News

forty three subscribers we are getting oh so close to 22k but if you want to be up to date on everything Mavericks related all summer long with the last game of summer league we've got preseason we have more updates on injuries and contracts if you don't want to miss out on a single thing that your favorite team's doing make sure you subscribe but the Dallas Mavericks just can't catch a break it seems like we know that Kyrie Irving is dealing with a torn ACL he's improving he's rehabbing he should be fine in the second half of next season which we're all aware of but just about a week ago we did find out that Anthony Davis had to have surgery to reattach a retina we went over that in a previous video where he's going to be fine he'll be back by training camp and if anything this will just help him next season to maybe hit more of his threes and more of his free throws but earlier today we did get the unfortunate news about our own center Derek Lively and the report goes that Dallas Mavericks center Derek Lively has undergone surgery to clean up bone spurs in his right foot sources tell ESPN he is expected to be healthy for training camp so there is good news it's not all doom and gloom bad news we do know that he will be back in time for training camp which is perfect by the time the season comes as long as everything goes smoothly we'll have nothing to worry about this report will probably be an afterthought to many Mavericks fans but it does show an underlining issue with Derek Lively this last season due to injuries and illnesses Derek Lively only played 36 games which is less than his rookie year where he barely played 50 games about 56 53 games Derek Lively is slowly becoming injury prone which does kind of make it a good thing that we got Daniel Gafford that we're not trading him away for Herb Jones or god forbid LeBron James but it does show that Daniel Gafford being on this team does have value but it does at least for me and many other Mavericks fans it does raise a little bit concern for Derek Lively. Derek Lively is an awesome rookie year helping us in the entire playoff run and leading up to the finals he's been a sponge he's improved so much in his game a lot of people would argue he should be our starter over Daniel Gafford I would choose Daniel Gafford over Derek Lively. Derek Lively is a great center very good on the defensive end his fritos have improved his perimeter defense is well well better far along better than Daniel Gafford so obviously there's no reason to trade him there's reason that he shouldn't be on this team but the health is concerning which is attributed by the Dallas Mavericks we talked about it many times on this channel how the previous medical staff has been fired we found out that the people that Nico Harrison chose to put in charge weren't even qualified me Marcel Martin of Mavericks Digest had the same amount of qualifications to be an NBA head trainer as the guy we had just let go which is a little bit I mean irresponsible I mean Derek Lively at the time was your young player he was your prospect your young talent that you wanted to grow develop into something great so why wouldn't you put the best talent around him to make sure that he's healthy that he stays able to play stay on the floor for two seasons not even able to play 60 games in either of his seasons is a little bit alarming are we going to see Derek Lively develop some actual injuries that are going to you know just last the entirety of his career where they just keep coming up or are we going to put the right people around Derek Lively to make sure that he stays healthy he's able to stay on the floor he's able to develop and actually play games I like Derek Lively a lot of people do and seeing these injuries just keep happening is a little bit concerning however like I said it's not all bad news we take a look right here Mark Stein does put things into perspective he said that Lively I'm told is now out of the boot after having bone spurs removed which is which is great great news he's not in a boot but he also said that the Mavericks were hopeful that Lively would not require off-season surgery after being limited to 36 games by the injury last season but the expectation is that the 21 year old will be available for the start of Dallas training camp in late September so again good news he will be here for training camp and we'll have another video around that time to make sure that's still the same however the Mavericks knew about this they knew that he would possibly need surgery most likely need surgery Mark Stein said right here the Mavericks were hopeful that Lively would not require off-season surgery but he did and I don't know why the Mavericks are hesitant to do surgery off-season let Derek Lively go get surgery let him go fix his foot the Dallas Mavericks have shown us last season that when it comes to the medical staff the medical side of everything injuries and how we rehab players how we allow them to come back when they're ready the Mavericks are doing a very poor job last season and it's starting to look like that really hasn't changed and although we do have someone new in-house which we'll get to later in this video the Dallas Mavericks have to do right by the young players I think Nico Harrison should not be heavily involved on the medical side if someone's telling you that Cooper Flagg needs to sit for a month you let him sit for a month there's no reason to rush anybody back from injury that will just add to those injuries we saw Derek Lively go down the injury a really nasty one on his ankle earlier in the season he almost came back a few days later until one of the trainers said hey go get a scan which showed that he did have a foot fracture or a hairline fracture in his foot which sidelined him for the remainder of the season up until the last several games where he was still on a minutes restriction so yes surgery is important recovery is important make sure these guys are taken care of are way more important than anything else availability is the best ability and if you can't stay healthy then you're no good for us no matter how good of a player that you are if we take a look at this right here Mark Stein also said that Derek Lively II I'm told remained on a minute's restrictions for both of Mavericks playing games this week this is an old tweet just want to bring it up he said that among the topics covered Nico Harrison's round table with selected Dallas media members was an ESPN McMahon question about the handling of Lively's injury so just to bring this old report back up that yeah Derek Lively came back after being sidelined with that ankle fracture that foot fracture but then also while coming back he was on minutes restriction I understand we didn't want to have to forfeit games we were dealing with a lot of injuries if you could just play for 10 minutes you were going to suit up for the Dallas Mavericks we were not trying to forfeit games because that would obviously look like we were trying to tank and we're trying to throw games to try to get Cooper flag but that does just paint a bigger picture are we taking care of our players I mean we got Kyrie Irving who's rehabbing his ACL we have Anthony Davis who's dealing with a detached retina as he just got surgery Derek Lively just now getting surgery now these are good things it's not a bad thing they're getting surgery they're getting taken care of but these should be priorities not something that you put off until the offseason I understand you don't want to throw games you don't want to forfeit games but but health should be the number one thing what if something worse happened to Derek Lively or Anthony Davis or Kyrie to where they have to miss the entirety of next season that just doesn't sound responsible but like I said I did have a medical professional break it down for me I'm gonna show you exactly what I was told that really puts things into perspective take a look right here I was told this he said so let me preface this by saying Shams is infamous amongst medical professionals because his reports are super unclear medically there are 26 bones in the foot all of which technically could have been bone spurs but there is a variation in any potential recovery timeline depending on the localization of the spurs my best guess would be this is a case of calcaneal heel bone spurs as a calcaneus I'm sorry I'm not a medical professional is among the most common places to have bone spurs recovery would be six weeks to three months with the six weeks being the more likely scenario if the surgery only involved bone bone spur resection he also followed up by saying so I had also asked how serious is this is something we should be worried about how did this happen is this relative to the injury that we saw earlier in the season and I was told so this is where NBA reporting states his fracture was said to be in his right ankle no bone specified and the spurs in his right foot without specifying the bone they could be related in that stress fracture and bone spurs both are caused by repetitive force slash impact on a specific area of the body more or less they are wear and tear injuries but bone spurs rarely occur acutely and normally are caused by the aforementioned chronic force process therefore the rt or the right ankle ct lively had which allowed diagnosing the stress fracture would have almost certainly included the bone spurs especially if they are in the heel less so if the spurs are in bones close to his toes so this is unfortunately would be another black mark against the medical staff all that to be said this is something that happened because of something else Derek Lively had that ankle fracture and then it caused bone spurs but this isn't something to worry about he's not gonna have to walk funny but it's good that we got them removed and like I said earlier in the video we do have someone much better in-house that should fix a lot of our medical issues a lot of people have been asking if we fixed our medical staff and I did find the answer this is actually an old report that may have flown under the radar but we did find that just in the conditioning coach Jeff Pulse to their training staff league sources tell me a highly respected figure around the league Pulse brings years of experience and reputation for elite player development and care and you can take this with a grain of salt because I know the Chicago Bulls had health issues on their own roster especially Alonzo Ball however if he's been around the league for a while he has experience that's more than what the last guy had it's more than what I have because I added as much experience as the last guy so all in all we've got improvements everywhere we've talked about the players that we've added in D'Angelo Russell and Cooper Flagg as well Ryan Emhardt and Miles Kelly and Dwight Powell of course he opted to his player contract or his player option so we got good players we also have a better staff I've recovered it I'm sorry I covered it heavily on this channel of all the coaching changes that we've made we have a much more experienced coaching roster as well as the training staff so even though Derek Lively had to get surgery even though AD has surgery Kyrie Irving's rehabbing his ACL things aren't that bad we're taking care of the problems now so they're not problems in the future let me know what you think in the comment section down below do you think that this is just a small sign of what's to come with Derek Lively that he is gonna be injury prone for the future or do you just think like me that he's fine he's getting surgery fix all the problems now so by the time the season starts he'll be ready to go we have about 98 days left until the regular season so these guys have plenty of time to rest but I'm glad you made it this far to the video make sure to check out our twitter and discord links in the description below and as always y'all take care drink water peace