{"id":513052,"date":"2026-01-03T02:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/513052\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T02:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:47:23","slug":"nba-power-rankings-watch-the-maverick-hauntings-of-2025-in-the-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/513052\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Power Rankings Watch: the Maverick hauntings of 2025 in the new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">In his one season at Duke, Cooper Flagg averaged 16.3 points and shot 42.1 percent from the field in his first 12 games. From that point to the end of the season, he averaged 20.5 and shot 51.1 percent from the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Now, in the NBA and against stiffer competition, he\u2019s on a similar developmental trajectory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">In his first 10 games as a Dallas Maverick, Flagg put up 13.9 points and made 40.3 percent of his shots. Since then, he\u2019s averaging a team-high 22.0 points, while shooting 52.6 percent from the field. He\u2019s also adding 6.3 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.0 blocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">There was little doubt the Duke product would get better over the course of his first NBA campaign, but the upward slope he\u2019s on is steeper than even his strongest believers could have imagined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">At this point, it feels like All-NBA contention could be in play within the next couple years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his one season at Duke, Cooper Flagg averaged 16.3 points and shot 42.1 percent from the field&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,1320,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-513052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallasmavericks","12":"tag-mavericks","13":"tag-mavericks-news","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115828886360756432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513052","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=513052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}