{"id":300428,"date":"2025-09-24T09:13:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/300428\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:13:26","slug":"cooper-flagg-among-the-elite-in-the-nba-according-to-espn-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/300428\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg among the elite in the NBA according to ESPN rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The overwhelming favorite to win the NBA Rookie of the Year, Flagg has sky-high expectations to meet, and, if you listen to the experts at ESPN, the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> rookie is already among the best in the NBA.<\/p>\n

In their annual preseason rankings<\/a> of the top 100 players heading into the NBA season, Flagg is higher than many talented veterans, coming in at No. 52.<\/p>\n

Here is what ESPN has to say about the 6-foot-7 star:<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old Flagg, who might be the most anticipated American prospect since LeBron James, arrives in the NBA in a distinctive position of being a No. 1 pick on a veteran-heavy roster with playoff aspirations. Mavs coach Jason Kidd plans to give the 6-foot-9 Flagg plenty of opportunity to prove that he can flourish as a point forward. Kidd took a similar approach with a young\u00a0Giannis Antetokounmpo\u00a0in Milwaukee, but the Greek Freak wasn’t surrounded by 30-something future Hall of Famers the way Flagg will be in Dallas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The hype will come to a crescendo on Oct. 22 when the Mavericks host the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> in Flagg’s debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The overwhelming favorite to win the NBA Rookie of the Year, Flagg has sky-high expectations to meet, and,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[2126,673,7,243,1518,225,686,149,4057,667,666,692,2127,130,133,1519,2125,131,517,516,185,166,318,70,85,6,67,61,134,132,672,474,66,83,534,55,2128],"class_list":{"0":"post-300428","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-espn","22":"tag-espn-inc","23":"tag-flagg","24":"tag-highlights","25":"tag-inc","26":"tag-james","27":"tag-lebron","28":"tag-lebron-james","29":"tag-mavericks","30":"tag-mens","31":"tag-national","32":"tag-national-sports","33":"tag-nba","34":"tag-news","35":"tag-overall","36":"tag-overall-positive","37":"tag-positive","38":"tag-san","39":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","40":"tag-sports","41":"tag-sports-news","42":"tag-spurs","43":"tag-story","44":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115258510772646302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300428","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=300428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}