{"id":448181,"date":"2025-06-26T07:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=448181"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:50:44","slug":"nico-harrison-fortune-favors-the-bold-after-mavs-land-no-1-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nico-harrison-fortune-favors-the-bold-after-mavs-land-no-1-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico Harrison: \u201cFortune favors the bold\u201d after Mavs land No. 1 pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"583\"><strong data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"229\">Nico Harrison<\/strong>, president of basketball operations for the <strong data-start=\"274\" data-end=\"294\">Dallas Mavericks<\/strong>, reacted to winning the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery with a statement that captures the team&#8217;s bold spirit: <em data-start=\"397\" data-end=\"458\">\u201cFortune favors the bold. So exciting things fell our way.\u201d<\/em> With only a <strong data-start=\"471\" data-end=\"486\">1.8% chance<\/strong> of winning the lottery, the Mavericks struck gold and drafted <strong data-start=\"549\" data-end=\"565\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Cooper Flagg<\/strong> at No. 1 overall.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"585\" data-end=\"817\">Flagg now joins <strong data-start=\"601\" data-end=\"616\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> in what Dallas hopes will become one of the league\u2019s most dynamic duos for years to come. Harrison\u2019s confident tone signals a new chapter for a team looking to bounce back from playoff disappointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas defied the odds with just a 1.8% chance, securing the top selection and drafting Cooper Flagg as the franchise&#8217;s next cornerstone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-448181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Dallas-Mavericks.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448181"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=448181"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=448181"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=448181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}