{"id":354695,"date":"2025-12-17T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/354695\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:17:08","slug":"cooper-flagg-becomes-youngest-nba-player-to-score-40-points-in-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/354695\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg becomes youngest NBA player to score 40 points in a game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Flagg scored the most points by an 18-year-old in NBA history, but he couldn&#8217;t enjoy the accomplishment because it came in defeat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47320994\/mavericks-cooper-flagg-youngest-nba-history-score-40\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Flagg put up 42 points -- topping the previous mark of 37 set by LeBron James on Dec. 13, 2003 -- in a 140-133 loss to the Utah Jazz on Monday night;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Flagg put up 42 points &#8212; topping the previous mark of 37 set by LeBron James on Dec. 13, 2003 &#8212; in a 140-133 loss to the Utah Jazz on Monday night<\/a>. &#8220;Obviously, we didn&#8217;t win. So, it&#8217;s tough for me to want to be happy or any of that,&#8221; said Flagg, who had a bag of ice on an ankle after rolling it at the end of regulation. &#8220;But obviously, it&#8217;s a success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47320994\/mavericks-cooper-flagg-youngest-nba-history-score-40\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg scored the most points by an 18-year-old in NBA history, but he couldn&#8217;t enjoy the accomplishment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[194492,64,63,5663,7896,590,109622,84998,85,11898],"class_list":{"0":"post-354695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-accomplishment","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-cooper-flagg","12":"tag-lebron-james","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-history","15":"tag-points","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-utah-jazz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354695","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=354695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}