Mavs Injury Updates: Tim Hardaway Jr. OUT vs. Blazers; Doncic, Wood Questionable

The Dallas Mavericks could be even more shorthanded than they were on Saturday night when they take on the Portland Trail Blazers for the second time in as many nights.

Dalton Trigg | Jan 15, 2023

When it comes to injuries, the Dallas Mavericks just can’t seems to catch a break right now.

Not only have the Mavs been without Dorian Finney-Smith, Josh Green and Maxi Kleber — arguably the team’s three best defenders — for more than a month, but they were also missing Christian Wood in Saturday night’s blowout loss to the Portland Trail Blazers. Wood played a season-high 47 minutes and tweaked his ankle in the Mavs’ double-overtime win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday.

The Mavs are playing against the Trail Blazers at Moda Center once again on Sunday night … and this time, they might be even more shorthanded than the night before.

According to Mavs PR, Tim Hardaway Jr. is out for Sunday’s matchup with an ankle sprain. Wood is questionable with his ankle sprain again, and Luka Doncic, who scored a season-low 15 points on Saturday, is also listed as questionable with ankle soreness.

Although “soreness” isn’t really an injury, the fatigue from having to carry such a large load for the Mavs could finally be catching up with Doncic, who played a season-high 53 minutes in the win over the Lakers on Thursday.

Sunday’s game against Portland will conclude Dallas’ five-game road trip. Doncic and company will get to fly home and rest until Wednesday when they take on Trae Young and they Atlanta Hawks. Hopefully, by then, the Mavs will get some reinforcements with either Green or Finney-Smith returning.

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Published Jan 15, 2023

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.