Anthony Davis won’t need surgery to repair ligament damage in his left hand that he sustained last week in a loss to the Utah Jazz, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania, who updated his previous report from earlier Tuesday, in which he originally said the Dallas Mavericks star was likely to undergo a procedure that would sideline him for several months.

Davis, who reportedly received a second opinion on the injury Tuesday, appeared to take issue with the initial news. He cryptically retorted via X within the hour of Charania’s first report, “Yall better stop listening to all these lies on these apps!”

Now the expectation is that Davis will be re-evaluated in six weeks, per Charania.

But Charania continued to report Tuesday that the Mavericks are still considering dealing the 10-time All-Star, even though he’s expected to be out through the NBA’s Feb. 5 trade deadline. The 15-25 Mavs renewed trade talks with multiple interested teams once the severity of injury was known, per Charania.

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Davis, 32, has been considered a top trade target for a while now, although his latest setback could affect his value. It’s important to note that, after this year’s draft, the Mavericks won’t have control of their first-round pick again until 2031. Previously interested teams who double as playoff contenders include the Toronto Raptors and Atlanta Hawks, according to ESPN. 

Last season, Davis was a centerpiece in one of the league’s most shocking deals ever when the Los Angeles Lakers shipped him to Dallas as part of a three-team trade that delivered five-time All-NBA first-team guard Luka Dončić to L.A.

While Dončić has become the face of the franchise Davis won a championship with during the 2020 season, Davis has had a turbulent experience with the Mavericks.

The big man has appeared in just 29 regular-season games, as well as two play-in games, since infamous Dallas general manager Nico Harrison acquired him last February.

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Following the trade, the former No. 1 overall pick was healing up from an abdominal injury. He hurried back and instantly starred with a dominant first half on Feb. 8, 2025 against the Houston Rockets, but an adductor strain related to the injury he was recovering from spoiled his night.

He missed the following six weeks.

Then, during an April 2 game versus the Hawks, Mavericks teammate Daniel Gafford accidentally elbowed Davis in his right eye. The injury ultimately required offseason surgery to repair a detached retina, and now Davis wears protective eyewear on the floor.

Five games into this season, on Oct. 29, 2025 versus the Indiana Pacers, Davis suffered a left calf strain that kept him out 14 games after Mavericks owner Patrick Dumont reportedly delayed green-lighting the Kentucky product’s return until the team had medical data indicating Davis wasn’t at risk of aggravating the injury. Along the way, Harrison was fired.

Davis came back in late November, only to then exit the Mavs’ Christmas Day game against the Golden State Warriors with right groin spasms.

Davis was back in the lineup on New Year’s Day, but he picked up his hand injury a week later while defending Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen on a baseline drive.

Injuries have been a thorn in Davis’ side throughout his career, which started with New Orleans in 2012, continued in Los Angeles, and has practically gone dormant in Dallas.

Davis is due $58.5 million next season, per ESPN, which reported last week that he has a player option for $62.8 million in 2027-28.

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Little of that matters now. The Red Sox, with their unwavering fealty to reason, didn’t want to pony up. They are left with a rightfully enraged fan base, one left perplexed at how neither Devers nor Bregman are still around. Breslow attempted to placate the Red Sox faithful via an email Q&A with Mass Live’s Chris Cotillo on Sunday, but the executive’s jargony, calculated answers only reinforced the criticism that he runs the club with a ruthless, robotic, un-human efficiency.

But even the toxically-optimistic, long-viewed Breslow readily admitted that the outcome of the Bregman-Devers saga was suboptimal.

He typed out to Cotillo: “Neither outcome we face right now is ideal, but both will be evaluated over a longer time horizon.”

The rest of the interview is mostly hollow GM-speak, but there are also moments of unintentional honesty that amplify concerns about Breslow’s way of doing business. In regards to what motivated Bregman to choose Chicago’s offer, Boston’s top baseball exec expressed that “It would be foolish and unfair for me to guess what was most important in their decision making.”

One might argue that rather than being “foolish and unfair” it would be prudent and essential to understand the factors influencing Bregman’s “decision making.” Being unwilling to include a no-trade clause in the contract, for instance, seems to have been a major sticking point for Bregman and his agent Scott Boras. After two straight winters wading through free agency’s messy waters, Bregman wanted stability. He wanted somewhere he could put down roots for his family, buy a house, be a part of a community as he was in Houston. Everybody in New England knew as much.

Bregman’s desire for a no-trade clause was even more reasonable given the shadow of Devers’ departure only seven months prior. If the Sox were willing to change course and send somebody of Devers’ stature out of town, why would they hesitate to do the same to Bregman? Via additional Mass Live reporting, the team pointed to “organizational policy” in regards to their refusal to grant Bregman a no-trade. But in the end, that calculating inflexibility proved to be a miscalculation.

The whole thing is a public-relations disasterclass, a textbook example of how to not interface with your fan base. Whether the Red Sox don’t know this or simply don’t care is unclear. The majesty of Fenway Park (and the surrounding real-estate holdings) ensure that the team will print money whether or not the on-field product succeeds. It’s a savvy way for Fenway Sports Group to operate. It’s also cutthroat, insulting and short-sighted.

And in the end, all will be well if the team wins. The 2026 Red Sox remain a talented bunch. Garrett Crochet is a top-four pitcher on Earth. Roman Anthony is a volcano of talent. The additions of Sonny Gray and Willson Contreras are legitimately impactful. Positionally, the roster is a puzzle of border pieces, a disjointed assortment of good players that a trade or two could help simplify. 

Still, Boston could overcome that dynamic to win 95 games and make a deep October run. If that happens, fans will pack Fenway to the gills and champion Breslow’s commitment to the process. Success, as always, heals everything.

But with Bregman out the door, it’s hard to say the Red Sox are better right now than they were a few months ago, when their season ended in pinstriped disappointment. It’s a reality that might have been avoided, whether with a couple more millions or a couple more human conversations. 

Either way, the result is the same: Red Sox leadership looks bad, with a long to-do list that includes explaining how this happened to an irate fan base.

The ]

Little of that matters now. The Red Sox, with their unwavering fealty to reason, didn’t want to pony up. They are left with a rightfully enraged fan base, one left perplexed at how neither Devers nor Bregman are still around. Breslow attempted to placate the Red Sox faithful via an email Q&A with Mass Live’s Chris Cotillo on Sunday, but the executive’s jargony, calculated answers only reinforced the criticism that he runs the club with a ruthless, robotic, un-human efficiency.

But even the toxically-optimistic, long-viewed Breslow readily admitted that the outcome of the Bregman-Devers saga was suboptimal.

He typed out to Cotillo: “Neither outcome we face right now is ideal, but both will be evaluated over a longer time horizon.”

The rest of the interview is mostly hollow GM-speak, but there are also moments of unintentional honesty that amplify concerns about Breslow’s way of doing business. In regards to what motivated Bregman to choose Chicago’s offer, Boston’s top baseball exec expressed that “It would be foolish and unfair for me to guess what was most important in their decision making.”

One might argue that rather than being “foolish and unfair” it would be prudent and essential to understand the factors influencing Bregman’s “decision making.” Being unwilling to include a no-trade clause in the contract, for instance, seems to have been a major sticking point for Bregman and his agent Scott Boras. After two straight winters wading through free agency’s messy waters, Bregman wanted stability. He wanted somewhere he could put down roots for his family, buy a house, be a part of a community as he was in Houston. Everybody in New England knew as much.

Bregman’s desire for a no-trade clause was even more reasonable given the shadow of Devers’ departure only seven months prior. If the Sox were willing to change course and send somebody of Devers’ stature out of town, why would they hesitate to do the same to Bregman? Via additional Mass Live reporting, the team pointed to “organizational policy” in regards to their refusal to grant Bregman a no-trade. But in the end, that calculating inflexibility proved to be a miscalculation.

The whole thing is a public-relations disasterclass, a textbook example of how to not interface with your fan base. Whether the Red Sox don’t know this or simply don’t care is unclear. The majesty of Fenway Park (and the surrounding real-estate holdings) ensure that the team will print money whether or not the on-field product succeeds. It’s a savvy way for Fenway Sports Group to operate. It’s also cutthroat, insulting and short-sighted.

And in the end, all will be well if the team wins. The 2026 Red Sox remain a talented bunch. Garrett Crochet is a top-four pitcher on Earth. Roman Anthony is a volcano of talent. The additions of Sonny Gray and Willson Contreras are legitimately impactful. Positionally, the roster is a puzzle of border pieces, a disjointed assortment of good players that a trade or two could help simplify. 

Still, Boston could overcome that dynamic to win 95 games and make a deep October run. If that happens, fans will pack Fenway to the gills and champion Breslow’s commitment to the process. Success, as always, heals everything.

But with Bregman out the door, it’s hard to say the Red Sox are better right now than they were a few months ago, when their season ended in pinstriped disappointment. It’s a reality that might have been avoided, whether with a couple more millions or a couple more human conversations. 

Either way, the result is the same: Red Sox leadership looks bad, with a long to-do list that includes explaining how this happened to an irate fan base.

LeBron James wore a patch on his jersey for the first time Tuesday commemorating his unprecedented 23rd NBA season in the city where he played his first NBA game. It features a silhouette of his pregame chalk toss and three colored stripes that represents the three franchises he has played on — the Lakers, Cavaliers and Heat.

James, who scored 22 points in the Lakers’ 124-112 loss to the Sacramento Kings, will wear the patch for the remainder of the season. After each game, the patch will be removed from his jersey for that game, dated and shipped to a Topps’ production facility to be authenticated and inserted into a pack of trading cards.

“Super cool. Super surreal. Super humbled, blessed,” James said. “I walked in here and saw it for the first time. It was like an emotional moment as well. Just think about the journey thus far and have an opportunity to be here where it kind of all started obviously, but in this city.

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“And it’s been a heck of a journey and people have followed my career and my fans have followed my career to get an opportunity to be a part of it.”

Lakers fans might not get the chance to see James and his patch up close on Tuesday night against the Atlanta Hawks. There’s a good chance he will not play in the second game of a back-to-back.

“We’ll see how he feels in the morning,” Lakers coach JJ Redick said.

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The San Francisco Giants are “aggressively” exploring a trade for a second baseman, according to a report from ESPN’s Jeff Passan. San Francisco is in talks with the Chicago Cubs about Nico Hoerner and with the St. Louis Cardinals regarding Brendan Donovan. 

“The San Francisco Giants are aggressively pursuing a second baseman and have been engaged with Chicago on Nico Hoerner and St. Louis on Brendan Donovan, sources tell ESPN. An infield of Matt Chapman, Willy Adames, Donovan or Hoerner and Rafael Devers would be among MLB’s best.”

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San Francisco finished 81-81 in 2025, a one-game improvement over the previous year, but only enough to secure third place in the NL West and miss the playoffs for the fourth straight season. The team parted ways with manager Bob Melvin in September and announced the hiring of his replacement, Tony Vitello, in October.

According to Passan, adding Hoerner or Donovan to the infield in San Francisco would put them among the best in the majors. Hoerner earned his second Gold Glove last season and had one of his best years at the plate, batting .297 while playing a career-high 156 games. 

Donovan finished his fourth MLB season with the Cardinals in 2025, hitting a career-best .287 and posting a .775 OPS with 10 home runs and 50 RBIs. The former seventh-round pick was also named an All-Star for the first time last season and has a Gold Glove to his name.

With spring training just over a month away, the clock is ticking on the Giants if they want to get this move done before players get back on the field in preparation for the 2026 campaign.

The San Francisco Giants are “aggressively” exploring a trade for a second baseman, according to a report from ESPN’s Jeff Passan. San Francisco is in talks with the Chicago Cubs about Nico Hoerner and with the St. Louis Cardinals regarding Brendan Donovan. 

“The San Francisco Giants are aggressively pursuing a second baseman and have been engaged with Chicago on Nico Hoerner and St. Louis on Brendan Donovan, sources tell ESPN. An infield of Matt Chapman, Willy Adames, Donovan or Hoerner and Rafael Devers would be among MLB’s best.”

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San Francisco finished 81-81 in 2025, a one-game improvement over the previous year, but only enough to secure third place in the NL West and miss the playoffs for the fourth straight season. The team parted ways with manager Bob Melvin in September and announced the hiring of his replacement, Tony Vitello, in October.

According to Passan, adding Hoerner or Donovan to the infield in San Francisco would put them among the best in the majors. Hoerner earned his second Gold Glove last season and had one of his best years at the plate, batting .297 while playing a career-high 156 games. 

Donovan finished his fourth MLB season with the Cardinals in 2025, hitting a career-best .287 and posting a .775 OPS with 10 home runs and 50 RBIs. The former seventh-round pick was also named an All-Star for the first time last season and has a Gold Glove to his name.

With spring training just over a month away, the clock is ticking on the Giants if they want to get this move done before players get back on the field in preparation for the 2026 campaign.