{"id":513115,"date":"2026-01-03T03:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/513115\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T03:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:34:12","slug":"cooper-flagg-gets-rookie-of-the-month-honors-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/513115\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg gets Rookie of the Month honors again"},"content":{"rendered":"

As he has done throughout the season, Cooper Flagg comes through to give some good news to Mavs Nation. Flagg has been nothing short of amazing, exceeding even the lofty expectations that were put upon him as he breaks record after record<\/a>. His latest accolade? Being named KIA Western Conference Rookie of the Month for the month of December.<\/p>\n

This is the second consecutive time he has received the honor, and after the October\/November win (the NBA consolidates those two months into a single award), it\u2019s difficult to be surprised given how much his game improved since opening night. For the month of December, Flagg averaged 23.5 points, 6.2 rebounds, 4.8 assists, 1.0 steal and 1.2 blocks per game. He connected on 52% of his total shots and 81% of his free throws during the 13-games he played in December.<\/p>\n

Flagg came out of the gates better than most expected he would, which really says something given the expectations surrounding him as the #1 overall pick in the Draft. Since then, he has only improved his game, stepping up in the clutch and showing time and again that he is the real deal. The Mavs have work to do to reconfigure their roster, but the future looks bright with Cooper Flagg as the face of the franchise.<\/p>\n

I invite you to follow me @_80MPH<\/a> on X, and check back often at Mavs Moneyball<\/a> for all the latest on the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As he has done throughout the season, Cooper Flagg comes through to give some good news to Mavs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513116,"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-513115","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\/115829071314000726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513115","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=513115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}