{"id":283720,"date":"2025-09-14T18:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/283720\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T18:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:16:13","slug":"cooper-flagg-hype-real-according-to-dirk-nowitzki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/283720\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg hype real according to Dirk Nowitzki"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dirk Nowitzki most definitely knows basketball, so when he speaks about the future of the NBA, especially about former Duke<\/a> star and top overall pick in the 2025 draft, Cooper Flagg, people listen.<\/p>\n

The fact that Flagg got drafted by Nowitzki’s former team, the Dallas Mavericks<\/a>, makes the NBA Hall of Famer’s words that much more meaningful. The 21-year NBA veteran and incoming rookie met up at Nowitzki’s charity tennis tournament this weekend, and the host had plenty of good things to say about Flagg.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hype is real, for sure,\u201d Nowitzki said of Flagg per The Athletic<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m not the biggest college sports watcher in general, whether that\u2019s basketball or any sport, but of course I checked out Cooper. Sky is the limit, honestly. \u201cWhat I saw, just the way he reads the game already at that age. (He\u2019s) barely 18, athletic, (has) skills. I heard his work ethic is through the roof. Everything I saw and heard is he\u2019s the real deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

There will be millions of eyes on Flagg and the Mavericks when he makes his debut next month against the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> after a summer full of hype surrounding him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dirk Nowitzki most definitely knows basketball, so when he speaks about the future of the NBA, especially about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[2126,673,7,243,1518,225,686,149,4057,667,666,692,2127,1519,2125,166,318,70,85,6,67,61,134,132,672,474,66,83,534,55,2128],"class_list":{"0":"post-283720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-antonio","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-blue","12":"tag-cooper","13":"tag-cooper-flagg","14":"tag-dallas","15":"tag-dallas-mavericks","16":"tag-dallasmavericks","17":"tag-devils","18":"tag-duke","19":"tag-duke-blue-devils-mens-basketball","20":"tag-enabled","21":"tag-flagg","22":"tag-highlights","23":"tag-mavericks","24":"tag-mens","25":"tag-national","26":"tag-national-sports","27":"tag-nba","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-overall","30":"tag-overall-positive","31":"tag-positive","32":"tag-san","33":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","34":"tag-sports","35":"tag-sports-news","36":"tag-spurs","37":"tag-story","38":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115204023409901895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}