138-127 loss<\/a> to the Orlando Magic on Friday night.<\/p>\nFlagg scored 24 points in the fourth quarter after coach Jason Kidd and forward Naji Marshall were ejected complaining about what they thought was a no-call when Desmond Bane fouled Flagg.<\/p>\n
Kidd was tossed even though he was assessed just one technical foul, while Marshall had gotten another tech at the end of the first half. His second came just moments after Kidd was thrown out.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great to see,\u201d Flagg said after going 19-for-30 from the field and making all seven of his free throws and topping his previous career high of 49 in a 123-121 to Charlotte on Jan. 29.<\/p>\n
\u201cI already know that coach has my back and Naji \u2026 I know he has my back for sure out there,\u201d Flagg said. \u201cJust seeing their emotion, seeing them fight for me and fight for the calls. Definitely some emotion, and motivated me even further.\u201d<\/p>\n
Flagg exited the game with 45 points, but assistant coach Frank Vogel, filling in for Kidd, told the 19-year-old he was just resting him during a defensive possession.<\/p>\n
Vogel called a timeout to get Flagg back in with 3:22 remaining, and Flagg made history a little more than a minute later. He missed a 3-pointer the first time down, then missed a follow attempt on Brandon Williams\u2019 miss, got the rebound again and made a corner 3.<\/p>\n
On the next Dallas possession, he hit an off-balance shot in the lane while getting fouled to clinch 50, made the free throw and left to a standing ovation.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks were down 30 when Flagg started his fourth-quarter scoring barrage in what ended up being their 14th consecutive home loss. It\u2019s the longest home losing streak since Dallas lost the first 19 games at since-demolished Reunion Arena in 1993-94.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always fun getting into that type of mode,\u201d Flagg said. \u201cThe basket feels big. My teammates are looking out for you, helping you out. But I like to win. That was my main focus. It\u2019s hard for me to fully enjoy myself out there when we\u2019re down 20, down 10, down 15, for the majority of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Flagg said he thought it was obvious Bane had fouled him in the opening two minutes of the fourth.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was warranted,\u201d Flagg said about Kidd\u2019s reaction. \u201cI\u2019m not going to lie. I talked to Bane after the play, and he told me he was intentionally trying to foul me. I honestly don\u2019t know how they didn\u2019t see that. Obviously, they must not have had the right view, or they weren\u2019t paying attention. But they missed it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg winds down after becoming the 1st teenager to score 50 points in an NBA game. DALLAS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[249606,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-563981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cooper-flagg-50","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563981","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=563981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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