{"id":365053,"date":"2025-12-24T02:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365053\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T02:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:45:08","slug":"mavericks-cooper-flagg-makes-absurd-1st-half-history-never-done-in-nba-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365053\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks&#8217; Cooper Flagg makes absurd 1st-half history never done in NBA before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Flagg continues to prove he&#8217;s the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Having just turned 19, Flagg remains a record-setting rookie for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/dallas-mavericks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> after being the No. 1 overall pick out of Duke in the 2025 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t even need a full game to make history on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Nope, Flagg had a first half so good it had never been done before.<\/p>\n<p>The feat: Flagg is the youngest player in NBA history to have a half with 20-plus points on 90% or better shooting from the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg went for 22 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nuggets<\/a> on 9-for-10, including 3-for-3 from 3-point range (he also made his only free throw attempt).<\/p>\n<p>Flagg added four rebounds, four assists, one steal and one block.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cooper Flagg is the youngest player in NBA history to have a half with 20+ PTS on 90%+ FG. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JT61mszSTq\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JT61mszSTq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Real Sports (@realapp) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realapp\/status\/2003649656690204814?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">December 24, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/los-angeles-clippers\/news\/ben-simmons-isnt-retired-nba-going-pro-sport-youll-never-guess\/a5f15001cb976ebbadf7b543\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ben Simmons is going pro in a sport you&#8217;d never expect<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s really nothing this dude can&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n<p>Every time it seems like he might have hit a plateau for a game or two, he comes out and does something remarkable like this.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavs certainly got mighty lucky landing the No. 1 overall pick in the lottery that came with the right to take Flagg.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like he&#8217;ll be the face of their franchise for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg continues to prove he&#8217;s the truth. Having just turned 19, Flagg remains a record-setting rookie for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-365053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}