{"id":412184,"date":"2026-01-16T02:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412184\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T02:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:14:10","slug":"mavericks-star-rookie-cooper-flagg-out-against-jazz-with-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412184\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks star rookie Cooper Flagg out against Jazz with ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 Dallas rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/cooper-flagg\/1d323a11-1758-4975-ba6f-1a03b7a2157c\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"1d323a11-1758-4975-ba6f-1a03b7a2157c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cooper Flagg<\/a> will miss the Mavericks&#8217; game against Utah on Thursday night because of a sprained left ankle.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 1 overall pick had been listed as doubtful before coach Jason Kidd said in his pregame meeting with reporters that the 19-year-old star wouldn\u2019t play.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg went down in the second quarter of a 118-109 loss to Denver on Wednesday night. He limped to the locker room but came back for the final 2:35 of the first half. Flagg didn\u2019t return for the second half, finishing with six points in 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The former Duke standout missed just one of Dallas\u2019 first 41 games when he was out with an illness for a home loss to New York on Nov. 19. He&#8217;s averaging 18.8 points and 6.3 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 Dallas rookie Cooper Flagg will miss the Mavericks&#8217; game against Utah on Thursday night because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-412184","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\/412184","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=412184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}