{"id":712597,"date":"2026-04-17T17:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712597\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:45:21","slug":"mavericks-star-cooper-flaggs-move-on-friday-was-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712597\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Star Cooper Flagg\u2019s Move on Friday Was Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though his season may have ended early, <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/tag\/cooper-flagg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Flagg<\/a> still awaits the announcement of the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a>\u2019s Rookie of the Year award. But while the decision on the honor is yet to be made, Flagg made an unexpected move.<\/p>\n<p>At 19 years old, the Mavericks rookie is currently the youngest player in the NBA. While he may be a threat to many on the court, Flagg still has plenty of aspirations in his personal life. Like many, he would have wished to meet some of his childhood heroes.<\/p>\n<p>That opportunity brought him to Europe just four days after finishing his first NBA season in Dallas. The Sidemen, a popular YouTube group from the United Kingdom, are set to host their 7th charity soccer match at Wembley Stadium in London. Flagg, who has been a fan of the group since his younger days, made sure to attend the training day in London ahead of the big match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though his season may have ended early, Cooper Flagg still awaits the announcement of the NBA\u2019s Rookie of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-712597","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-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116421297654802323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712597","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=712597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}