Mavs' Josh Green Out 'Another Couple Weeks'

Josh Green has been the Dallas Mavericks most efficient two-way player this season, but it looks like he's going to be out for at least the next three games due to a lingering elbow injury ... and perhaps a little longer than that.

Dalton Trigg | Dec 19, 2022

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Third-year shooting guard Josh Green has had a great start to the 2022-23 season for the Dallas Mavericks, as he's averaging seven points in 20 minutes per game off the bench while shooting 58.3 percent from the field, including 44.4 percent from deep – all of those numbers being career-highs.

Although his points per game aren't eye-popping, his efficiency is, and he's also arguably overtaken Dorian Finney-Smith and Reggie Bullock as the best perimeter defender the Mavs have. The 22 year old has quietly become one of the better young two-way rotation players in the league this season, but due to a lingering elbow sprain, it looks like Green is going to miss a little more time before returning to action for Dallas.

"I won’t be playing this road trip," Green told the Dallas Morning News ahead of Monday night's game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. "I really couldn’t tell you [a timeframe]. Doing as much treatment as I can, but we’re going to revisit it in another couple weeks."

After Monday's game, the Mavs will take on the Timberwolves once again on Wednesday before finishing up their three-game road trip on Friday against the Houston Rockets. Following the road trip, the Mavs will return home to take on LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers for a primetime Christmas Day matchup at American Airlines Center. We already know Lakers star Anthony Davis is going to miss that one, and it looks like we can pencil out Green as well if his "couple weeks" assessment is accurate.

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Published Dec 19, 2022

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.