{"id":479002,"date":"2026-01-15T08:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=479002"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:27:25","slug":"dallas-mavericks-cooper-flagg-exits-vs-nuggets-with-left-ankle-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dallas-mavericks-cooper-flagg-exits-vs-nuggets-with-left-ankle-sprain\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks&#8217; Cooper Flagg exits vs Nuggets with left ankle sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"383\" data-end=\"663\"><strong data-start=\"3947\" data-end=\"3963\">Cooper Flagg<\/strong> was ruled out after halftime in the <strong data-start=\"4000\" data-end=\"4021\">Dallas Mavericks\u2019<\/strong> 118-109 loss to the <strong data-start=\"4042\" data-end=\"4060\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong> due to a <strong data-start=\"4070\" data-end=\"4093\">sprained left ankle<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"4094\" data-end=\"4097\" \/>Dallas announced early in the third quarter that the No. 1 pick would not return.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cooper Flagg injury.<\/p>\n<p>He was being taken to the hoop, landed on his left ankle weird, sprained it.<\/p>\n<p>Prayers up \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UmbuTMnb7s\">pic.twitter.com\/UmbuTMnb7s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SM Highlights (@SMHighlights1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SMHighlights1\/status\/2011641876919791908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4182\" data-end=\"4408\">Flagg twisted the ankle while defending <strong data-start=\"4222\" data-end=\"4239\">Peyton Watson<\/strong> on a drive with 6:01 left in the second quarter.<br data-start=\"4288\" data-end=\"4291\" \/>He limped straight to the tunnel, later returned briefly, but showed visible discomfort as he finished the quarter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cooper Flagg was laboring hard on his ankle. He went to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg injured his left ankle in the teams win against the Nets on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The fans at the American Airlines Center were devastated. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BPgsQmlA3a\">pic.twitter.com\/BPgsQmlA3a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ron Harrod Jr. (@RonKnowsSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonKnowsSports\/status\/2011642462045946106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"944\" data-end=\"1199\">It marked the second straight game Flagg turned the same ankle after returning Monday vs Brooklyn following a retape.<br data-start=\"4527\" data-end=\"4530\" \/>Dallas also lost <strong data-start=\"4547\" data-end=\"4565\">Daniel Gafford<\/strong> in the third quarter to a <strong data-start=\"4592\" data-end=\"4616\">sprained right ankle<\/strong> that has lingered since training camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Flagg didn\u2019t return after halftime of Dallas\u2019 118-109 loss to the Denver Nuggets with a sprained left ankle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":479001,"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-479002","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\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-15-alle-08.24.27.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479002","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=479002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479002"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=479002"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=479002"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=479002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}