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Mavs Injury Update: Maxi Kleber to Return From Hamstring Tear This Season

The Dallas Maverick have already gotten Dorian Finney-Smith and Josh Green back from injuries, and now, it looks like they'll be getting Maxi Kleber back at some point as well.

Dalton Trigg

After being severely undermanned for more than a month, the good injury news just keeps coming for the Dallas Mavericks.

Dorian Finney-Smith and Josh Green made their much-anticipated returns from injuries on Wednesday in the Mavs' nationally televised matchup against the Atlanta Hawks, and now, it looks like they could be getting Maxi Kleber back at some point this season to give Luka Doncic more help as well.

"Yeah, I'm not out for the season," Kleber told the Bally Sports Southwest crew before the Mavs tipped off against the Hawks.

Kleber has missed 20 games due to a hamstring tear that required surgery. It was initially believed that he'd miss the remainder of the season, but there has apparently been an accelerated healing process. For a big guy who is about to turn 31 years old, a return so soon after a hamstring injury of that nature is surprising, but the Mavs will definitely take the good news and run with it.

Before his injury, Kleber was averaging 6.2 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.0 blocks in 25.6 minutes per game while shooting 49 percent from the field and 36.9 percent from 3-point range. 

Dallas' defense has fallen off a cliff during the absences of Finney-Smith, Green and Kleber – arguably the team's three best defenders. Finney-Smith and Green are back to help turn that around, and now the hope is that Kleber can do the same.

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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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