{"id":466685,"date":"2025-10-28T08:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=466685"},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:15:12","slug":"mavs-rookie-cooper-flagg-injures-shoulder-benched-in-clutch-loss-to-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mavs-rookie-cooper-flagg-injures-shoulder-benched-in-clutch-loss-to-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs rookie Cooper Flagg injures shoulder, benched in clutch loss to Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1172\" data-end=\"1358\"><strong data-start=\"1172\" data-end=\"1192\">Dallas Mavericks<\/strong> rookie <strong data-start=\"1200\" data-end=\"1216\">Cooper Flagg<\/strong> hurt his <strong data-start=\"1226\" data-end=\"1243\">left shoulder<\/strong> on the opening play of Monday\u2019s 101-94 loss to the <strong data-start=\"1295\" data-end=\"1320\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong> and spent crunch time on the bench.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1360\" data-end=\"1586\">Flagg finished with only <strong data-start=\"1385\" data-end=\"1416\">2 points (1-for-9 shooting)<\/strong>, 2 rebounds, and no assists, saying he felt \u201cflat\u201d in his first NBA back-to-back. \u201cI\u2019ll get some scans, but it\u2019s just sore,\u201d he said after icing the shoulder postgame.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1588\" data-end=\"1805\">Coach <strong data-start=\"1594\" data-end=\"1608\">Jason Kidd<\/strong> said sitting Flagg was a tactical move: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t his night. The group on the floor gave us the best chance to win.\u201d The No. 1 pick agreed, adding, \u201cI wasn\u2019t myself. Coach made the right call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1807\" data-end=\"1870\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n<p data-start=\"709\" data-end=\"1004\">Coach <strong data-start=\"715\" data-end=\"729\">Jason Kidd<\/strong> ha elogiato il rookie per la sua durezza ma ha giustificato la scelta di tenerlo fuori nel finale: \u201cNon era la sua serata. Il gruppo in campo ci stava dando la chance di vincere.\u201d Flagg ha accettato la decisione: \u201cNon stavo giocando bene. Coach ha fatto la scelta giusta.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8216;Flat&#8217; Cooper Flagg benched, injured in Mavericks loss <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PUNGOSXPLV\">https:\/\/t.co\/PUNGOSXPLV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AZSP Sports News (@AzspNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AzspNews\/status\/1983063881695277368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 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>Dallas Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg hurt his left shoulder on the opening play of Monday\u2019s 101-94 loss<\/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":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-466685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"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\/466685","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=466685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466685\/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=466685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466685"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=466685"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=466685"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=466685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}