{"id":642047,"date":"2026-03-06T00:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/642047\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T00:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:17:26","slug":"cooper-flagg-in-mavericks-starting-lineup-vs-magic-after-missing-8-games-with-foot-injury-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/642047\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg in Mavericks&#8217; starting lineup vs. Magic after missing 8 games with foot injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/dallas-mavericks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mavericks<\/a> rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/cooper-flagg-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Flagg<\/a> is back in the starting lineup for Dallas against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/orlando-magic-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a> on Thursday night after missing eight games with a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Flagg, the No. 1 pick in last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a> draft, was sidelined with a left mid-foot sprain. He last played at Phoenix on Feb. 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The 6-foot-9 forward out of Duke is averaging a team-leading 20.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists in 49 games. He has missed a total of 12 games in his rookie season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The 19-year-old Flagg leads all NBA rookies in scoring, and ranks fourth in rebounds and second in assists. Against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/charlotte-hornets-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> on Jan. 29, he scored 49 points and became the youngest player to score at least 45 points in an NBA game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg is back in the starting lineup for Dallas against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,225,149,685,1407,6,76],"class_list":{"0":"post-642047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-charlottehornets","12":"tag-cooper-flagg","13":"tag-dallas-mavericks","14":"tag-hornets","15":"tag-national-basketball-association","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-orlando-magic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116179359861706773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642047","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=642047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642047\/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=642047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}