{"id":920743,"date":"2026-10-08T14:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920743\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:54:09","slug":"cooper-flagg-unveils-signature-logo-with-new-balance-in-new-photo-ahead-of-2026-27-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920743\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg Unveils Signature Logo with New Balance in New Photo Ahead of 2026-27 NBA Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Two weeks before opening his second NBA season, Dallas Mavericks star Cooper Flagg has unveiled his new signature logo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">During an event in China prior to the Mavs&#8217; preseason game in Macau, Flagg revealed the &#8220;CF&#8221; logo that will be featured on his New Balance merchandise. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Flagg took some inspiration from his home state of Maine by making the C look like a pine tree. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Eastern White Pine is the official state tree of Maine. Since 90 percent of Maine is forestland, it has <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csg.org\/2026\/08\/10\/maine-the-pine-tree-state\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">earned the nickname<\/a> of the &#8220;Pine Tree State.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Prior to his lone season at Duke, Flagg signed an <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/10133127-video-cooper-flagg-lands-new-balance-contract-duke-star-is-top-nba-draft-prospect\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">endorsement deal<\/a> with New Balance. He joined the stable of basketball players with the company, along with Kawhi Leonard, Kyrie Irving and Zach LaVine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Flagg does not currently have a signature shoe, but he was given his own personal colorway of the New Balance Hesi Low v2 that he wore throughout his rookie season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Selected with the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA draft, Flagg managed to live up to all of the hype he had coming into the league as a rookie. He averaged 21.0 points, 6.7 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game in 70 starts for the Mavericks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Flagg joined Michael Jordan as the <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25417471-cooper-flagg-matches-michael-jordan-feat-make-nba-history-rookie-season\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">only rookies<\/a> since the 1973-74 season to lead their team in total points, rebounds, assists and steals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Mavs will tipoff their preseason schedule Friday against the Houston Rockets in the first of two games at the Venetian Arena. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Flagg and the Mavericks will begin the 2026-27 regular season on Oct. 21 against the Rockets at the Toyota Center.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two weeks before opening his second NBA season, Dallas Mavericks star Cooper Flagg has unveiled his new signature&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-920743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920743","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=920743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}