{"id":944888,"date":"2026-10-24T20:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944888\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T20:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:22:11","slug":"mavericks-cooper-flagg-out-at-least-one-week-with-shoulder-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944888\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks&#8217; Cooper Flagg out at least one week with shoulder sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flagg&#8217;s absence will begin Saturday against the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>Last season&#8217;s NBA Rookie of the Year did not play in the second half of Dallas&#8217; 121-105 victory Friday night over the Indiana Pacers after landing hard on his left shoulder after Aaron Nesmith tried to block his shot from behind to prevent a breakaway dunk.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Flagg landed hard on his shoulder. Nesmith was called for a flagrant foul.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg was off to a fast start in his second pro season. Two days after scoring 32 points to become the highest scoring teenager in a season opener in league history, Flagg was on pace for his first triple double of the season. He finished with 14 points, five rebounds and six assists in 17 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;with files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flagg&#8217;s absence will begin Saturday against the San Antonio Spurs. Last season&#8217;s NBA Rookie of the Year did&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-944888","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\/944888","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=944888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}