{"id":466537,"date":"2025-10-27T08:50:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=466537"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:50:35","slug":"cooper-flagg-sparks-mavs-to-first-win-with-highlight-dunk-and-22-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cooper-flagg-sparks-mavs-to-first-win-with-highlight-dunk-and-22-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg sparks Mavs to first win with highlight dunk and 22 points"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cooper Flagg became the 2nd player in NBA history at 18 years or younger to record a game with 20+ PTS and 0 TOs in tonight\u2019s win vs. TOR \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>The other? Kobe Bryant in 1997 vs. SAC. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dissttBtUa\">pic.twitter.com\/dissttBtUa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1982681133742780462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1232\" data-end=\"1579\">Rookie sensation <strong data-start=\"1249\" data-end=\"1265\">Cooper Flagg<\/strong> led the <strong data-start=\"1274\" data-end=\"1294\">Dallas Mavericks<\/strong> to their <strong data-start=\"1304\" data-end=\"1331\">first win of the season<\/strong>, a 139-129 triumph over the <strong data-start=\"1360\" data-end=\"1379\">Toronto Raptors<\/strong>, with <strong data-start=\"1386\" data-end=\"1426\">22 points, 4 rebounds, and 4 assists<\/strong>. The No. 1 overall pick electrified the crowd with a thunderous <strong data-start=\"1491\" data-end=\"1507\">and-one dunk<\/strong> over Sandro Mamukelashvili during Dallas\u2019 decisive third-quarter run.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1847\">At <strong data-start=\"1584\" data-end=\"1613\">18 years and 309 days old<\/strong>, Flagg became the <strong data-start=\"1632\" data-end=\"1672\">fifth-youngest player in NBA history<\/strong> to record a 20-point game, joining names like <strong data-start=\"1719\" data-end=\"1734\">Kobe Bryant<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1739\" data-end=\"1755\">LeBron James<\/strong>. \u201cIt feels great \u2014 we finally gave the fans something to cheer for,\u201d said Flagg postgame.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1849\" data-end=\"2078\">With <strong data-start=\"1854\" data-end=\"1883\">Anthony Davis (25 points)<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1888\" data-end=\"1913\">D\u2019Angelo Russell (24)<\/strong> adding balance, Dallas snapped its early slump while Kyrie Irving remains out injured. \u201cWhen he plays like that, it\u2019s contagious,\u201d Russell said of Flagg\u2019s impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie sensation Cooper Flagg led the Dallas Mavericks to their first win of the season<\/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":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-466537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Dallas-Mavericks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466537","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=466537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466537\/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=466537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466537"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=466537"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=466537"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=466537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}