Dallas Mavericks star rookie Cooper Flagg made some more history in Tuesday night’s 131-130 win over the Denver Nuggets, and he earned som praise from one of the league’s best players.
Flagg dropped 33 points, nine rebounds and nine assists in the victory, becoming the youngest player in NBA history to put up those numbers and joining Jason Kidd and Luka Doncic as the only rookies in franchise history to register that stat line.
“He was definitely a hot hand out there,” three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic said of Flagg, per ESPN’s Tim MacMahon. “But just, I’m going to say the poise that he played with, he doesn’t feel like he’s so young out there. He seems like he played meaningful games and he was winning before. That’s my opinion. He looked really mature out there.”
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