{"id":639342,"date":"2026-03-04T18:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/639342\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:32:13","slug":"mavericks-cooper-flagg-stands-alone-as-nbas-top-teen-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/639342\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks&#8217; Cooper Flagg Stands Alone as NBA\u2019s Top Teen Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cooper Flagg wins this spot in a landslide. That&#8217;s the luxury being the only teenager to appear in B\/R 99,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25402120-best-nba-player-every-age\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BR&#8217;s Dan Favale writes<\/a>. &#8220;The 6&#8217;9&#8243; rookie is as versatile and disruptive on defense as advertised&#8230; Stuffing the box score will help Flagg challenge for further best-of-his-age bracket honors in the years to come. As it stands,\u00a0just three other non-center rookies\u00a0have matched his defensive rebounding, assist, steal and block rates in as many minutes: Lonzo Ball, Lamar Odom and Ben Simmons.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cooper Flagg wins this spot in a landslide. That&#8217;s the luxury being the only teenager to appear in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,6],"class_list":["post-639342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-mavericks","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116172340869084952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639342","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=639342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}