{"id":194600,"date":"2025-10-07T03:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T03:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194600\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T03:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T03:25:09","slug":"grading-cooper-flaggs-2025-nba-preseason-debut-with-dallas-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194600\/","title":{"rendered":"Grading Cooper Flagg&#8217;s 2025 NBA Preseason Debut with Dallas Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Cooper Flagg made his first appearance in a (non-summer league) NBA jersey on Monday, when his Dallas Mavericks annihilated the shorthanded Oklahoma City Thunder, 106-89.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Individually, Flagg may have been a little deferential to start, but by the end of his 14 minutes of action, he&#8217;d shown just about everything that made him the No. 1 pick in June and put up 10 points, six rebounds, three assists and a block.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Now that his impressive debut is in the rearview, it&#8217;s time to bust out the rubric and give him some traditional letter grades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg made his first appearance in a (non-summer league) NBA jersey on Monday, when his Dallas Mavericks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-194600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}