{"id":479179,"date":"2026-01-16T08:33:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=479179"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:33:47","slug":"dallas-mavericks-cooper-flagg-sidelined-vs-jazz-with-left-ankle-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dallas-mavericks-cooper-flagg-sidelined-vs-jazz-with-left-ankle-sprain\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks&#8217; Cooper Flagg sidelined vs Jazz with left ankle sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1069\" data-end=\"1340\">The <strong data-start=\"1088\" data-end=\"1108\">Dallas Mavericks<\/strong> held <strong data-start=\"1114\" data-end=\"1130\">Cooper Flagg<\/strong> out of their 144-122 win over the <strong data-start=\"1165\" data-end=\"1178\">Utah Jazz<\/strong> due to a <strong data-start=\"1188\" data-end=\"1209\">left ankle sprain<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1210\" data-end=\"1213\" \/>It\u2019s only the second game missed by the No. 1 pick this season, after an illness absence on Nov. 19 vs the <strong data-start=\"1320\" data-end=\"1339\">New York Knicks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1342\" data-end=\"1585\">Flagg suffered the injury in the second quarter of Wednesday\u2019s loss to the <strong data-start=\"1417\" data-end=\"1435\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong>, twisting the ankle while defending Peyton Watson.<br data-start=\"1486\" data-end=\"1489\" \/>He briefly returned before halftime but showed discomfort and did not come back after the break.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1587\" data-end=\"1815\">Notably, it\u2019s the second straight game he\u2019s tweaked that same ankle, which was retaped Monday vs the <strong data-start=\"1688\" data-end=\"1705\">Brooklyn Nets<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1706\" data-end=\"1709\" \/>Flagg is averaging <strong data-start=\"1728\" data-end=\"1773\">18.8 points, 6.4 rebounds and 4.2 assists<\/strong>, with Rookie of the Year buzz around him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1817\" data-end=\"1877\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks held Cooper Flagg out of their 144-122 win over the Utah Jazz due to a left ankle sprain<\/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-479179","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\/479179","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=479179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479179\/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=479179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479179"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=479179"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=479179"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=479179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}