The Dallas Mavericks kicked off training camp in Vancouver, Canada on October 1st, with an eye on leaving the tumultuous 2024-25 season in the rearview mirror. It was finally time to properly usher in the Cooper Flagg era and look toward a positive future. There is much about last season that Mavs fans want to forget, but perhaps at the top of that list is the nearly endless string of injuries the team experienced. The hope of a reversal of fortune on that front were quickly dashed, as the team didn’t get past a single day without a notable injury (two, in fact, but more on that soon).

As reported by Tim MacMahon and confirmed by head coach Jason Kidd, Daniel Gafford rolled his ankle and is expected to miss two to three weeks.

Doing the quick math, the timetable for Gafford’s return line

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