{"id":482993,"date":"2026-11-01T06:36:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/482993\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T06:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:36:42","slug":"youtube-gold-irving-flagg-lead-mavs-to-win-over-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/482993\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Gold: Irving, Flagg, Lead Mavs To Win Over Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _174s0un6 _174s0un5 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0uUfFlrICE4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I<\/a>n Cooper Flagg\u2019s rookie season, he was asked to do a lot, not least of all to fill in for future Hall of Famer and fellow Brotherhood member Kyrie Irving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It took him a little while to settle in, but before long, he emerged as the team\u2019s best player. Former coach Jason Kidd forced him to take on a lot, and that\u2019s paying off now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Irving finished with 35 points, 4 rebounds, and 9 assists, while Flagg scored 33 points, 9 rebounds, and 6 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">At 34, Irving is on the back end of his career, while Flagg, just 19, won\u2019t even be able to legally drink until 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">But Dallas\u2019s Dynamic Duo is building some real chemistry and it\u2019s showing on the court. This is a very fun team to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Cooper Flagg\u2019s rookie season, he was asked to do a lot, not least of all to fill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11918,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-482993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-alumni","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482993","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=482993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}