{"id":510612,"date":"2026-08-18T20:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=510612"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:06:28","slug":"mavs-cooper-flagg-excited-for-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mavs-cooper-flagg-excited-for-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs: Cooper Flagg &#8216;Excited&#8217; for Year 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Flagg can\u2019t wait to return to the court and begin his second pro season with the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 1 overall pick of the 2025 NBA Draft recently spoke to the NBA\u2019s official website about his star teammate Kyrie Irving and the areas of his game he has been working on during the offseason:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I&#8217;m excited to get back to playing games and improve a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Flagg checks in during his first NBA offseason!<\/p>\n<p>The 2025-26 Kia NBA Rookie of the Year is excited for all things Year 2, especially getting to share the court with Kyrie Irving for the first time \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yR1XnXOgke\">pic.twitter.com\/yR1XnXOgke<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA\/status\/2089408163720146975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Flass finished his first NBA season averaging 21 points, 6.7 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.2 steals per game, while shooting 47% from the field, 29% from three-point range and 83% from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cooper Flagg was blocking everything in his 1st NBA season \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>He posted a team-high 64 blocks, ranking 4th among rookies last year!<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dallasmavs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dallasmavs<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YmquMrS76R\">pic.twitter.com\/YmquMrS76R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA\/status\/2089764260259787097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to get back to playing games and improve a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":490217,"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,"_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-510612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mavs: Cooper Flagg &#039;Excited&#039; 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