{"id":90123,"date":"2025-08-17T18:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90123\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T18:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:40:07","slug":"mavericks-stars-injury-helpful-for-cooper-flagg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90123\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks star’s injury ‘helpful’ for Cooper Flagg?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mavericks star’s injury ‘helpful’ for Cooper Flagg?<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

Dallas Mavericks star guard Kyrie Irving tearing his ACL last March certainly did not do the team any favors, especially as they were still trying to process the mind-blowing trade that shipped Luka Doncic out and brought Anthony Davis in the month before.<\/p>\n

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But after the team drafted Duke superstar Cooper Flagg with the first overall pick in the 2025 draft, it might have been just what the team needed going forward.<\/p>\n

According to Dave Jacoby of The Ringer<\/a> in an appearance on The Mismatch podcast, this could still be a positive for the Mavericks, and especially for their next best thing in Flagg.<\/p>\n

“Kyrie getting injured is a terrible, terrible, awful thing for all basketball fans, but for the development of Cooper Flagg, I think it actually is helpful,” Jacoby said. ”\u00a0they\u2019re going to give him a little bit of rope to have the ball, to be a lead ball handler. I think Kyrie being injured is obviously awful, but the silver lining on that dark cloud is that it gives Flagg a little bit of opportunity to sort of just find his way in the NBA offense.”<\/p>\n

The Mavericks solidifying Flagg as an NBA talent will be an interesting balance between training the Blue Devil and also remaining a threat to their opposition, but as Flagg showed in his lone year in Durham, if there is anyone capable of making the adjustment, it’s him.<\/p>\n

And whenever fellow Blue Devil no. 1 pick Irving rejoins the team, they can fully reap the benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mavericks star’s injury ‘helpful’ for Cooper Flagg? originally appeared on The Sporting News Dallas Mavericks star guard Kyrie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[5554,61589,761,760,61588,764,3014,355,99,37567],"class_list":["post-90123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-anthony-davis","tag-blue-devil","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dave-jacoby","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-luka-doncic","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-the-mavericks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90123","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=90123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}