{"id":409986,"date":"2026-01-16T02:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409986\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T02:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:36:11","slug":"mavericks-rookie-star-cooper-flagg-out-against-jazz-because-of-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409986\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks rookie star Cooper Flagg out against Jazz because of ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas rookie Cooper Flagg will miss the Mavericks\u2019 game against Utah on Thursday night because of a sprained left ankle. The No. 1 overall pick had been listed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>DALLAS(AP) \u2014 Dallas rookie Cooper Flagg 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<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas rookie Cooper Flagg will miss the Mavericks\u2019 game against Utah on Thursday night because of a sprained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-409986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}