According to multiple NBA insiders, Mavs superstar Kyrie Irving underwent surgery to repair a broken hand, although he should still be ready for training camp this fall. How could this affect the Mavs' chances of returning to the NBA Finals next season? How might it impact his defensive efforts?
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00:15The maps announcing Kyrie Irving undergoing surgery for a broken hand
00:21What do you think of where this goes is is it clear if he's going to be back or not?
00:24We'll check. What do you have for us on this Kyrie Irving story?
00:27Yeah, so we had Mike Curtis is really doing a fantastic job covering the maps of the morning news
00:32He was the first that I saw
00:33Put out that he underwent surgery to repair a broken hand. He sustained that earlier this month while training
00:39So I don't know. I mean when it comes to him being back for camp
00:44I feel like that's something that should be okay
00:46He's got what till October to go ahead and let that thing heal, but there isn't I did not see any estimated timeframe really
00:54But I guess when it comes to broken hands like what is that you're looking at a month to two months
00:58For that thing to go ahead and hopefully recover. Yeah, I mean, I think you're talking about at least eight weeks
01:03So that would put him pretty much right at about
01:07Training camp time September 27th. I believe is when things really get going across the league. So
01:15Shooting hand non-shooting hand absolutely, which is which is which is nice, but it certainly sucks
01:22And I'm sure it will ultimately
01:24Slow slow play what he does throughout training camp
01:27But I was bummed when I got the news on the the notification on the phone yesterday
01:32I was like geez, what are you doing? How are you breaking your hand right now?
01:35I'm trying to figure out what he was doing. I mean crazy stuff can happen, right?
01:38Yeah, you know, maybe he was working on his left-handed windmill dunk hit the rim a little too hard
01:43I'll tell you what
01:43I mean
01:44He did just have then he just set a career high for most dunks in a season did he might understand about like his time
01:49Here with the Mavericks in the role like he's gonna get opportunities
01:52Yeah, it's a slam at home and he wants to make sure that he's flushing it like a big modern medicine
01:57Maybe that maybe the hands stronger. I just hope there's no complications to it, you know, and he's he's back maybe shortly before training camp
02:04I don't think you have much to worry about Kyrie Irving like as far as this being a distraction
02:08He's one of the hardest workers on his craft that I've ever seen in any professional sport
02:14But you know, I I think that's a reminder that hey Kyrie Irving's career has not been
02:20Without injury and you know last year was a blessing keeping him and Luca healthy is your absolute ticket