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Lakers' Anthony Davis Out with Foot Injury; Will Miss Christmas Day Matchup vs. Mavs

Things just keep getting worse for LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers this season, as Anthony Davis is set to miss at least one month with a foot injury. This also means he won't be playing on Christmas.

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Many were looking forward to a star-studded Christmas Day matchup between the Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers, but you can now officially mark one of those stars off of NBA Santa's list.

On Monday, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported that Lakers star Anthony Davis is expected to miss at least one month due to a foot injury he suffered in Friday night's matchup against the Denver Nuggets.

The Lakers' disappointing season just keeps getting worse, as LeBron James' squad is 12-16 on the year and sitting at 12th in the Western Conference standings. The crazy part for the Lakers is that they've been this bad with Davis having only missed three games up to this point in the season. He is avenging 27.4 points, 12.1 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 59.3 percent from the floor for L.A.

Luka Doncic vs. King James will still be a great Christmas present for basketball fans everywhere, assuming both of them stay healthy between now and then, but the matchup has definitely lost some steam now.

Mavs fans, who will get to see Dirk Nowitzki's statue unveiled before that game, will hope this news means an easy win on Christmas Day. As we all know too well, though, there is no such thing as an easy win for this year's Mavs.

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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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