{"id":244034,"date":"2025-10-27T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244034\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:58:14","slug":"cooper-flagg-scores-22-points-excites-nba-fans-as-anthony-davis-mavs-beat-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244034\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg Scores 22 Points, Excites NBA Fans as Anthony Davis, Mavs Beat Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Cooper Flagg appears to be figuring things out three games into his NBA career. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Dallas Mavericks rookie put together his best outing so far in a 139-129 win over the Toronto Raptors on Sunday. He dropped 22 points on 8-of-14 shooting, adding four rebounds, four assists and a block. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">It&#8217;s still early, but fans are liking what they&#8217;re seeing from Flagg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Flagg had a decent NBA debut against the San Antonio Spurs with 10 points, but he looked a bit uncomfortable and hit just four of his 13 shot attempts. He improved in his second game with 18 points, six assists and five boards, and now he has a new career high. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Flagg will have nights like Sunday, where he looks like an emerging star, but just like any rookie, he may also have some games where he reminds fans that he&#8217;s 18 years old and still has some developing to do. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After his performance against the Raptors, it&#8217;s easy to see why Flagg got as much hype as he did, and he&#8217;ll look to continue shining early. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg appears to be figuring things out three games into his NBA career. The Dallas Mavericks rookie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-244034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244034","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=244034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}