DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Dallas Mavericks rookie teenage standout Cooper Flagg will miss their final game before the All-Star break and not play in the NBA’s Rising Stars game on Friday night because of a left midfoot sprain.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks announced Wednesday night that an MRI revealed the injury occurred in their\u00a0120-111 loss at Phoenix<\/a>\u00a0a night earlier, when he had 27 points in 36 minutes. They said further updates \u201cwill be provided as appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n Flagg, the No. 1 overall draft pick last summer, is averaging 20.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists in his 49 games with Dallas.<\/p>\n The 19-year-old recently set an NBA record for a teenager with four consecutive games of at least 30 points. That streak began with a\u00a0single-game NBA teen record 49 points<\/a>\u00a0on Jan. 29 in a home loss to Charlotte and\u00a0fellow rookie Kon Knueppel<\/a>, his roommate when they were freshmen at Duke last season.<\/p>\n The Mavericks (19-34) have an eight-game losing streak going into Thursday night’s game at the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n Flagg<\/a>\u00a0has averaged 29.7 points, 7.6 rebounds and 4.3 assists in the losing streak, during which the Mavericks last week\u00a0traded Anthony Davis<\/a>, the 10-time All-Star who joined the Mavs in a deal a year ago that sent superstar Luka Doncic to the Lakers.<\/p>\n Dallas will play its first three games after the All-Star Game on the road, resuming play Friday, Feb. 20 at Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Dallas Mavericks rookie teenage standout Cooper Flagg will miss their final game before the All-Star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[58195,3979,64,63,6167,590,44,85,3370],"class_list":["post-475469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-app-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dallas","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475469","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=475469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}