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<\/a>Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg drives to the basket as Orlando Magic\u2019s Paolo Banchero defends in the first half Friday\u2019s game in Dallas. (Tony Gutierrez\/Associated Press)<\/p>\nFlagg was caught up in the disagreement that led to Kidd\u2019s ejection, drawing his own technical foul before Kidd went onto the court apparently to protest the same non-call that drew Flagg\u2019s ire.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old responded with 24 points in the fourth quarter to become the youngest in NBA history with a 50-point game.<\/p>\n
Assistant coach Frank Vogel, who filled in for Kidd, briefly pulled Flagg late in the fourth quarter when he had 45 points. After returning, Flagg hit a corner 3-pointer, then got to 50 points with a bucket and foul, making the free throw and coming out of the game to standing ovation.<\/p>\n
Flagg went 19 of 30 from the field, including 6 of 9 from long range, and made all seven free throws.<\/p>\n
Jalen Suggs and Tristan da Silva scored 19 points apiece for the Magic, and Franz Wagner added 18.<\/p>\n
Brandon Williams scored 23 points for Dallas.<\/p>\n
P.J. Washington Jr., Dallas\u2019 third-leading scorer, missed a third consecutive game because of an illness.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Magic: At New Orleans on Sunday<\/p>\n
Mavericks: Host the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg drives to the basket as Orlando Magic’s Paolo Banchero defends in the first half…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-563827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563827","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=563827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg drives to the basket as Orlando Magic\u2019s Paolo Banchero defends in the first half Friday\u2019s game in Dallas. (Tony Gutierrez\/Associated Press)<\/p>\n