{"id":566868,"date":"2026-01-28T19:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/566868\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:09:32","slug":"mavericks-update-cooper-flaggs-injury-status-before-wednesdays-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/566868\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks update Cooper Flagg&#8217;s injury status before Wednesday&#8217;s game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Flagg is questionable for the Mavericks&#8217; upcoming game against the Timberwolves.The questionable status is due to managing a previous left ankle injury.Flagg initially injured his ankle on January 14th against the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After likely missing the game against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/milwaukee-bucks\/15\/\" data-autotag=\"095a6c49-6910-41a9-b78d-8bbd1d214447\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a>, which was cancelled due to winter weather on Sunday, Cooper Flagg is once again listed as questionable ahead of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/dallas-mavericks\/6\/\" data-autotag=\"e6751d65-4a81-4131-973c-176d23467b30\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> matchup against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/minnesota-timberwolves\/16\/\" data-autotag=\"ac5e47f0-6bd5-488e-9fd0-a3a235704d6f\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The rookie and No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft tweaked his ankle in a loss to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/denver-nuggets\/7\/\" data-autotag=\"81d09f83-fd88-4a89-842b-d31778fd3b3c\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> on Jan. 14, causing him to miss the next two games. Flagg returned in the Mavericks\u2019 victory over the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/new-york-knicks\/18\/\" data-autotag=\"8b753024-9401-4cc8-9e23-5a6cdca0282d\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">New York Knicks<\/a> in Madison Square Garden on Jan. 19, scoring 18 points, and also played in the ensuing two games against Golden State and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\/\" data-autotag=\"4d34a300-3059-4ec4-a4d3-4d636ac95816\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The reason for his questionable status isn\u2019t due to a new injury, but rather the management of the left ankle injury he suffered against the Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In 43 games this season, Flagg is averaging 18.8 points, 6.4 rebounds and 4.1 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m. ET Cooper Flagg is questionable for the Mavericks&#8217; upcoming game against the Timberwolves.The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[72400,7,307,152,3954,6,74643,73480,72404,72598,72464,72497,73149,72689,72408,72952,72570,72611,72666,72406,72558,308,72403],"class_list":["post-566868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-accessfree","tag-basketball","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-minnesotatimberwolves","tag-nba","tag-sstssportscollegedukemens-basketball","tag-sstsnmens-basketball","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagcooper-flagg","tag-tagdallas-mavericks","tag-tagdenver-nuggets","tag-tagduke-blue-devils-mens-basketball","tag-taglos-angeles-lakers","tag-tagmilwaukee-bucks","tag-tagminnesota-timberwolves","tag-tagnba-draft","tag-tagnew-york-knicks","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagstory-highlights-ai-enabled","tag-timberwolves","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566868","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=566868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}