Dallas Basketball

FIBA Friendly: Australia Defeats France; Mavs’ Josh Green Injury Update

Australia defeated France in the early-morning hours on Sunday, but Dallas Mavericks’ Josh Green had to leave the game in the second quarter due to injury.

Dalton Trigg

In this story:

As national teams prepare for the FIBA World Cup, which gets underway this week, injuries have been piling up in a handful of these “friendly” exhibition games.

Unfortunately for the Dallas Mavericks, fourth-year guard Josh Green, who was recently moved into Australia’s starting lineup, was the latest player to suffer an injury in a game that technically doesn’t count.

With a little less than eight minutes remaining in the second quarter of Australia’s game against France, Green appeared to suffer a hyperextension in his left leg. He left the game and did not return, but he was seen walking around under his own power later in the game, which is a good sign.

The Boomers went on to defeat France, 78-74. Mavs’ newly-signed reclamation project Dante Exum scored 11 points in the win while playing excellent defense. It appears that Exum has what it takes to crack Jason Kidd’s bench rotation this season, but we’ll find out more when training camp begins at the end of September.

"Bigger picture in all of this, I think we need to play Exum more," Australian national team head coach Brian Goorjian said after Wednesday's loss to Brazil. 

Australia’s final exhibition game will be against Georgia on Tuesday. The game can be streamed on the 1891 Courtside app. You’ll be able to watch Luka Doncic and Slovenia, Jalen Brunson and Team USA, and many others in the FIBA World Cup on ESPN+. Stay tuned to DallasBasketball.com for updates on Green’s injury.

Follow Dalton Trigg on Twitter. SUBSCRIBE to Mavs Step Back on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Want the latest in breaking news and insider information on the Dallas Mavericks? Click Here. Follow DallasBasketball.com on Twitter and Facebook.

Published
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.

Home/News