{"id":491211,"date":"2026-04-04T08:19:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=491211"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:19:46","slug":"cooper-flagg-scores-51-but-mavericks-fall-as-rookie-makes-nba-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cooper-flagg-scores-51-but-mavericks-fall-as-rookie-makes-nba-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg scores 51, but Mavericks fall as rookie makes NBA history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1936\" data-end=\"2216\"><strong data-start=\"1936\" data-end=\"1952\">Cooper Flagg<\/strong> delivered a spectacular performance, finishing with <strong data-start=\"2005\" data-end=\"2018\">51 points<\/strong> in the <strong data-start=\"2026\" data-end=\"2046\">Dallas Mavericks<\/strong>\u2019 138-127 loss to the <strong data-start=\"2068\" data-end=\"2085\">Orlando Magic<\/strong>. The rookie exploded for 24 points in the fourth quarter and became the youngest player in NBA history to reach the 50-point mark.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2218\" data-end=\"2528\">The game also featured major controversy with the officials. After a non-call on contact with <strong data-start=\"2312\" data-end=\"2328\">Desmond Bane<\/strong>, Flagg was assessed a technical foul, while <strong data-start=\"2373\" data-end=\"2387\">Jason Kidd<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2392\" data-end=\"2409\">Naji Marshall<\/strong> were both ejected during the sequence for arguing with referees. Kidd later strongly backed his rookie after the game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2530\" data-end=\"2792\">Historically, the performance puts Flagg in elite company: he became only the ninth rookie in NBA history to score at least 50 points in a game. Even in a difficult season for Dallas, the former Duke star strengthened his case in the <strong data-start=\"2764\" data-end=\"2786\">Rookie of the Year<\/strong> race.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bg8G3aaFd7U?si=ulp9OxwjtK6_53zA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 1 pick delivered a record-setting performance in the Dallas Mavericks\u2019 loss to the Orlando Magic<\/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":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-491211","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\/2024\/02\/Dallas-Mavericks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491211","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=491211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491211\/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=491211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491211"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=491211"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=491211"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=491211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}