{"id":602608,"date":"2026-04-14T03:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602608\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:38:09","slug":"mavericks-cooper-flagg-delivers-rookie-season-rarely-seen-since-michael-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602608\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks\u2019 Cooper Flagg delivers rookie season rarely seen since Michael Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/dallas-mavericks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> star forward Cooper Flagg had a rookie season for the ages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Flagg joined NBA legend and Hall of Famer Michael Jordan in achieving an historic feat this season. Flagg led his team in points, rebounds, assists, and steals in 2025-26, making him and Jordan the only rookies to do so since the 1973-74 campaign.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cooper Flagg. Michael Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks&#8217; young star joins MJ as the only rookies since 1973-74 to lead their team in total points, rebounds, assists and steals! \ud83e\udd2f <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xRvm1eNBsJ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xRvm1eNBsJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/2043803918086615143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 13, 2026<\/a>Cooper\u00a0Flagg Leads ROY Race After Impressive Year<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old rookie was phenomenal from start to finish, recording\u00a021 points per game, 6.7 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.2 steals per game while shooting 46.8 percent from the field and 29.5 percent from beyond the arc in 70 games and 33.5 minutes of action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.betmgm.com\/en\/blog\/nba\/nba-rookie-of-the-year-odds-bm23\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BetMGM<\/a>, Flagg is the favorite to win Rookie of the Year with -175 odds after posting great numbers. Those -175 odds imply that he has a 63 percent chance of winning the award. Right behind Flagg is his former college teammate, guard\u00a0Kon Knueppel, with +135 odds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the Mavericks&#8217; final game, Flagg\u00a0made it clear that has high expectations for himself, stating that he would be disappointed if he fell short of winning the award.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, obviously I&#8217;d be disappointed. That&#8217;s something that I think all rookies come out and they strive for, and that&#8217;s an award that they wanna get; so, I definitely be disappointed. At the end of the day, I think I went out and showed what I&#8217;m capable of,&#8221;Flagg\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_abigaiiiil\/status\/2043576803034378530\">said<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Flagg may have had a great season, but the same cannot be said for his team. They endured another disappointing season, finishing the season missing the play-in once again with a 26-56 record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is the second consecutive season that Dallas has failed to play in the postseason after making the 2024 NBA Finals.\u00a0<\/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":"Dallas Mavericks star forward Cooper Flagg had a rookie season for the ages.\u00a0 Flagg joined NBA legend and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-602608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602608","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=602608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}