{"id":598348,"date":"2026-02-12T06:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/598348\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T06:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:42:21","slug":"mavericks-rookie-cooper-flagg-sidelined-by-left-midfoot-sprain-out-for-nbas-rising-stars-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/598348\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg sidelined by left midfoot sprain, out for NBA’s Rising Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Dallas Mavericks<\/a> rookie teenage standout Cooper Flagg<\/a> will miss their final game before the All-Star break and not play in the NBA’s<\/a> Rising Stars game on Friday night because of a left midfoot sprain.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks announced Wednesday night than an MRI revealed the injury that occurred in their 120-111 loss at Phoenix a night earlier, when he had 27 points in 36 minutes. They said further updates \u201cwill be provided as appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flagg, the No. 1 overall draft pick last summer, is averaging 20.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists in his 49 games with Dallas. <\/p>\n

The 19-year-old recently set an NBA record for a teenager with four consecutive games of at least 30 points. That streak began with a single-game NBA teen record 49 points on Jan. 29 in a home loss to Charlotte and fellow rookie Kon Knueppel<\/a>, his roommate when they were freshmen at Duke last season. <\/p>\n

The Mavericks (19-34) have an eight-game losing streak going into Thursday night’s game at the Los Angeles Lakers. <\/p>\n

Flagg has averaged 29.7 points, 7.6 rebounds and 4.3 assists in the losing streak, during which the Mavericks last week traded Anthony Davis<\/a>, the 10-time All-Star who joined the Mavs in a deal a year ago that sent superstar Luka Doncic<\/a> to the Lakers. <\/p>\n

Dallas will play its first three games after the All-Star Game on the road, resuming play Friday, Feb. 20 at Minnesota. <\/p>\n

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AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Dallas Mavericks rookie teenage standout Cooper Flagg will miss their final game before the All-Star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,225,149,1407,6,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-598348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cooper-flagg","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-national-basketball-association","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116056302910857854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598348","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=598348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}