{"id":492635,"date":"2026-04-13T08:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=492635"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:15:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:15:01","slug":"cooper-flaggs-season-ends-early-with-ankle-sprain-in-mavericks-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cooper-flaggs-season-ends-early-with-ankle-sprain-in-mavericks-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg\u2019s season ends early with ankle sprain in Mavericks finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1550\" data-end=\"1745\"><strong data-start=\"1550\" data-end=\"1566\">Cooper Flagg<\/strong> saw his rookie season come to an early end after suffering a sprained left ankle in the <strong data-start=\"1655\" data-end=\"1676\">Dallas Mavericks\u2019<\/strong> 149-128 win over the <strong data-start=\"1698\" data-end=\"1715\">Chicago Bulls<\/strong> in the regular-season finale.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1747\" data-end=\"2033\">Flagg was injured early in the second quarter when he landed awkwardly after trying to tip in his own miss between two Bulls defenders. He limped up the floor before Dallas intentionally fouled to stop play and allow him to leave the game, and he was officially ruled out shortly after.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2035\" data-end=\"2329\">The No. 1 overall pick finishes his first NBA season averaging <strong data-start=\"2098\" data-end=\"2155\">21.0 points, 5.4 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.2 steals<\/strong> in 70 games. Flagg led Dallas in total points, rebounds, assists and steals, capping off an impressive year that keeps him firmly in the <strong data-start=\"2293\" data-end=\"2315\">Rookie of the Year<\/strong> conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 1 pick suffered a left ankle injury in Dallas\u2019 final regular-season game<\/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-492635","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\/492635","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=492635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492635\/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=492635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492635"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=492635"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=492635"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=492635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}