{"id":409913,"date":"2026-01-15T01:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/409913\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:58:13","slug":"mavericks-cooper-flagg-stands-alone-among-nba-rookies-thanks-to-these-crazy-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/409913\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks&#8217; Cooper Flagg stands alone among NBA rookies thanks to these crazy stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There isn&#8217;t too much to be written about Cooper Flagg. He has been that good.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/dallas-mavericks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> got incredibly lucky to land the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery. They used it on the obvious choice, Flagg out of Duke.<\/p>\n<p>And he has been as advertised.<\/p>\n<p>Through Jan. 13, Flagg led all rookies in points.<\/p>\n<p>He was second in assists and second in rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>And he was third in steals and third in blocks.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/news\/warriors-steph-curry-broke-another-michael-jordan-all-time-nba-record\/3e4aa4630b6938e52ffe56a1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steph Curry broke another Michael Jordan all-time NBA record<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the only rookie top-three in all five categories.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cooper Flagg rookie ranks:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 1st in points<br \/>\u2022 2nd in assists<br \/>\u2022 2nd in rebounds<br \/>\u2022 3rd in steals<br \/>\u2022 3rd in blocks<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the only rookie to be top 3 in every category. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ogr9QTl9Cm\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ogr9QTl9Cm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MavsMuse (@MavsMuse) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MavsMuse\/status\/2011532839976903101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/news\/lebron-james-trends-football-career-never-reached-nfl\/dd395409a2aa7e91cea88d56\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LeBron James trends for the NFL career that never was<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flagg&#8217;s averages are:<\/p>\n<p>19.1 points6.4 rebounds4.3 assists1.3 steals0.8 blocks<\/p>\n<p>He has only gotten better as the season has gone along, too.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg hasn&#8217;t even been 19 years old for a month, either.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, his future is plenty bright. The Mavs are just lucky to have him.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There isn&#8217;t too much to be written about Cooper Flagg. He has been that good. The Dallas Mavericks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-409913","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\/409913","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=409913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}