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Luka Doncic Expected to Miss Significant Period of Time After Injury

Doncic suffered a calf injury on Christmas.

Josh Wilson

Doncic left the Mavs' Christmas Day game with an injury
Doncic left the Mavs' Christmas Day game with an injury / Jerome Miron-Imagn Images
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Luka Dončić left the Dallas Mavericks' 105–99 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves early with a calf injury. No contact occured on the play, always an alarming sight given the frequency of those kinds of non-contact plays being tendon or ligament related. Before imaging, it's unknown the true extent of the injury.

Now, the Mavs are expecting the team's primary star to miss an extended period of time according to ESPN's Shams Charania and Tim MacMahon.

The duo reports that Dončić left the arena on crutches and has an MRI scheduled for Thursday that will reveal more to him and the team about the extent of the injury.

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Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.

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