{"id":236819,"date":"2026-04-06T05:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236819\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T05:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:02:09","slug":"cooper-flagg-favored-over-kon-knueppel-for-nba-rookie-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236819\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg favored over Kon Knueppel for NBA rookie of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Flagg would like to remind everyone: The race for NBA Rookie of the Year isn\u2019t over.<\/p>\n<p>The odds have favored\u00a0Knueppel, but the gap narrowed after Flagg became the youngest player to score 50 points Friday, and he overtook his former roommate at Duke after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/article\/dallas-mavs-cooper-flagg-lakers-rookie-of-the-year-22190488.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Mavericks&#8217; 134-128 win Sunday<\/a> over the Lakers, according to several betting sites. <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.draftkings.com\/leagues\/basketball\/nba?category=awards&amp;subcategory=roty\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DraftKings set the odds<\/a> at -250 for Flagg and +180 for Knueppel.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg has four more games to make his case for the award, while Knueppel has three.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the rookies&#8217; stats this season, their performances Sunday and their remaining opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday at LA Clippers, 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday at Phoenix Suns, 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Friday at San Antonio Spurs, 7 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sunday vs. Chicago Bulls, 7:30 p.m.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday at Boston Celtics, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Friday vs. Detroit Pistons, 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday at New York Knicks, 5\u00a0p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg would like to remind everyone: The race for NBA Rookie of the Year isn\u2019t over. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,88840,91178],"class_list":{"0":"post-236819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-tp-dallas-mavericks","12":"tag-tp-cooper-flagg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}