{"id":450756,"date":"2025-07-11T08:05:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T06:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=450756"},"modified":"2025-07-11T08:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T06:05:42","slug":"cooper-flagg-wins-summer-league-debut-despite-shooting-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cooper-flagg-wins-summer-league-debut-despite-shooting-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg wins Summer League debut despite shooting struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1582\" data-end=\"1853\"><strong data-start=\"1597\" data-end=\"1613\">Cooper Flagg<\/strong> debuted in the <strong data-start=\"1629\" data-end=\"1650\">NBA Summer League<\/strong> with 10 points, 6 rebounds, and 4 assists despite shooting 5-of-21 from the field. The No. 1 pick delivered a crucial block and assist to <strong data-start=\"1789\" data-end=\"1806\">Ryan Nembhard<\/strong> for the game-winning three against the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1855\" data-end=\"2054\"><strong data-start=\"1855\" data-end=\"1880\">Mavs coach Jason Kidd<\/strong> used Flagg frequently as a ballhandler, challenging him to grow as a creator. Flagg described the game as \u201cone of the worst of my life\u201d but was pleased with getting the win.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2056\" data-end=\"2251\"><strong data-start=\"2056\" data-end=\"2072\">Bronny James<\/strong> praised Flagg, calling him \u201ca special player\u201d despite shooting struggles. Flagg showed flashes of brilliance in transition, including a tomahawk dunk and multiple athletic plays.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cooper Flagg showcased his skills in his debut \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBA2KSummerLeague?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBA2KSummerLeague<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10 PTS<br \/>\n6 REB<br \/>\n4 AST<br \/>\n3 STL<\/p>\n<p>And 1 big block to help seal the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallasmavs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dallasmavs<\/a> win! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S3svJlHlA9\">pic.twitter.com\/S3svJlHlA9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1943495680330285520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Flagg finishes with 10 points and a clutch defensive play in his NBA Summer League debut, helping the Mavs beat the Lakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":450755,"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-450756","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\/2025\/07\/GvisVeGXQAA9L9e.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450756","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=450756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450756"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=450756"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=450756"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=450756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}