{"id":296614,"date":"2025-11-20T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296614\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:03:09","slug":"cooper-flagg-out-with-illness-misses-nba-game-for-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296614\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg out with illness, misses NBA game for 1st time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1918362\" class=\"wp-image-1918362 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8263a65a-ecb2-4a64-a941-835c21a8cbf3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1439\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1918362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By missing Wednesday\u2019s game, Cooper Flagg will have three game days off between back-to-backs in Dallas\u2019 schedule.<\/p>\n<p>DALLAS (AP) \u2014 The Dallas Mavericks\u2019 Cooper Flagg was listed out with an illness for Wednesday night\u2019s game against the New York Knicks, missing his first NBA game.<\/p>\n<p>The top pick in this year\u2019s NBA draft has averaged 15.5 points, 6.3 rebounds and 3.1 assists in 34 minutes per game. He has had three 20-point games with a high of 26 on Nov. 10 in a two-point loss to Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old from Duke has primarily played point guard for the first time because of the Mavericks\u2019 current dearth of playmakers, with Kyrie Irving out until at least December while recovering from surgery on his left ACL last March.<\/p>\n<p>By missing Wednesday\u2019s game, Flagg will have three game days off between back-to-backs in Dallas\u2019 schedule. Sunday\u2019s win over Portland went to overtime and he played a season-low 27 minutes on Monday night in a 120-96 loss at Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg is shooting 45.5% from the floor, 29.3% on 3-pointers and 78.3% on free throws after hitting his first 24 from the line through eight games.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks were 2-8 in their last 10 games played without 10-time All-Star Anthony Davis, who has been sidelined by a strained left calf. The 32-year-old Davis isn\u2019t expected back until Sunday at the earliest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By missing Wednesday\u2019s game, Cooper Flagg will have three game days off between back-to-backs in Dallas\u2019 schedule. DALLAS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,170069,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-296614","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-cooper-flagg-out","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296614","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=296614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}