{"id":470560,"date":"2025-11-20T08:40:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=470560"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:40:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:40:46","slug":"dallas-mavericks-rookie-cooper-flagg-misses-first-game-with-illness-in-loss-to-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dallas-mavericks-rookie-cooper-flagg-misses-first-game-with-illness-in-loss-to-knicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg misses first game with illness in loss to Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1228\" data-end=\"1406\"><strong data-start=\"1228\" data-end=\"1248\">Dallas Mavericks<\/strong> rookie <strong data-start=\"1256\" data-end=\"1272\">Cooper Flagg<\/strong> missed his first NBA game Wednesday due to illness, as the Mavs fell 113-111 to the <strong data-start=\"1357\" data-end=\"1376\">New York Knicks<\/strong>, coach <strong data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1398\">Jason Kidd<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1408\" data-end=\"1682\">The <strong data-start=\"1412\" data-end=\"1444\">No. 1 pick in the 2025 draft<\/strong> had been added to the injury report earlier in the day along with <strong data-start=\"1511\" data-end=\"1527\">Caleb Martin<\/strong> and skipped the morning shootaround. Despite recent issues with a sore left shoulder and sprained right thumb, Flagg had started every game this season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1684\" data-end=\"1816\">The 18-year-old forward is averaging <strong data-start=\"1721\" data-end=\"1766\">15.5 points, 6.3 rebounds and 3.1 assists<\/strong> per game. Dallas dropped to 4-11 with the loss.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1818\" data-end=\"1891\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 1 overall pick sidelined after starting every game so far<\/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-470560","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","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470560","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=470560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470560\/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=470560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470560"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=470560"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=470560"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=470560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}