{"id":474495,"date":"2025-12-16T07:34:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=474495"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:34:35","slug":"cooper-flagg-makes-nba-history-despite-dallas-mavericks-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cooper-flagg-makes-nba-history-despite-dallas-mavericks-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg makes NBA history despite Dallas Mavericks loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1536\" data-end=\"1817\"><strong data-start=\"1536\" data-end=\"1552\">Cooper Flagg<\/strong> became the youngest player in <strong data-start=\"1583\" data-end=\"1598\">NBA history<\/strong> to score 40 points, finishing with <strong data-start=\"1634\" data-end=\"1647\">42 points<\/strong> in the <strong data-start=\"1655\" data-end=\"1698\">Dallas Mavericks\u2019 140-133 overtime loss<\/strong> to the Utah Jazz. The No. 1 pick, turning 19 on Sunday, also recorded <strong data-start=\"1769\" data-end=\"1816\">7 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 blocks and a steal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1819\" data-end=\"2085\">Flagg joined rare company as just the third teenager ever with at least <strong data-start=\"1891\" data-end=\"1930\">40 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists<\/strong>, alongside <strong data-start=\"1942\" data-end=\"1958\">LeBron James<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1963\" data-end=\"1979\">Kevin Durant<\/strong>. He also tied <strong data-start=\"1994\" data-end=\"2010\">Mark Aguirre<\/strong> for the most points scored by a rookie in <strong data-start=\"2053\" data-end=\"2084\">Mavericks franchise history<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2087\" data-end=\"2354\">Utah took control in overtime, with <strong data-start=\"2123\" data-end=\"2159\">Keyonte George scoring 37 points<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2164\" data-end=\"2193\">Lauri Markkanen adding 33<\/strong>, as Dallas shot <strong data-start=\"2210\" data-end=\"2221\">1-for-9<\/strong> in the extra period. Both teams were without their starting centers, including <strong data-start=\"2301\" data-end=\"2318\">Anthony Davis<\/strong>, sidelined with a left calf bruise.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1203\" data-end=\"1271\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47320994\/mavericks-cooper-flagg-youngest-nba-history-score-40\"><strong data-start=\"1203\" data-end=\"1213\">Source:<\/strong> <em data-start=\"1214\" data-end=\"1220\">ESPN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Flagg became the youngest player in NBA history to score 40 points, finishing with 42 points in the Dallas Mavericks\u2019 140-133 overtime 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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-474495","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\/474495","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=474495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474495\/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=474495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474495"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=474495"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=474495"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=474495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}