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Mavericks’ Jason Kidd explains why Kyrie Irving won’t play again this season

When Kyrie Irving suffered a torn ACL last March, everyone knew that the star point guard would miss a significant chunk of the 2025-26 season. The recovery timeline became murkier as the year progressed, and after the Dallas Mavericks sunk further into quicksand, the expectation was that he would not play at all until the next campaign.

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