{"id":269531,"date":"2025-10-27T13:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/269531\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:02:26","slug":"cooper-flagg-scores-22-points-dallas-mavericks-beat-toronto-raptors-for-1st-win-with-no-1-overall-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/269531\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg scores 22 points, Dallas Mavericks beat Toronto Raptors for 1st win with No. 1 overall pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Flagg scored 22 points and had a soaring one-handed dunk during the decisive run, helping the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/mavericks-extend-jason-kidd-after-doncic-trade-cooper-flagg-hope\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> beat the Toronto Raptors 139-129 on Sunday night for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/dallas-mavericks-cooper-flagg-rally-washington-wizards-kyshawn-george-nba-game-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first victory<\/a> with the No. 1 overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Davis had 25 points and 10 rebounds as the Mavericks won the third of five consecutive home games to start the season, a night before they face defending champion Oklahoma City to finish a back-to-back.<\/p>\n<p>Scottie Barnes had 33 points and 11 rebounds for the Raptors, who play another game in Texas at San Antonio on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg started a 13-0 run in the third quarter with a bucket and finished it by taking a bounce pass from D&#8217;Angelo Russell in transition, dunking over Sandro Mamukelashvili and getting fouled. The free throw put Dallas up 95-85.<\/p>\n<p>The one-and-done star from Duke stopped a 7-0 Toronto run with a 3-pointer to reach 20 points for the first time and get the Dallas lead back to 12 midway through the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>P.J. Washington had a pair of three-point plays and a 3-pointer in the fourth to help keep the Raptors from rallying and finished with 17 points, seven rebounds and five assists.<\/p>\n<p>Russell had 24 points and a team-high six assists to lead three double-figure scorers off the Dallas bench. Max Christie scored 17 points, and Naji Marshall made all four shots and all four free throws for 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Ingram scored 22 points for Toronto, and RJ Barrett and Mamukelashvili had 16 apiece.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg scored 22 points and had a soaring one-handed dunk during the decisive run, helping the Dallas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[568,196,5047,147,5278,5,555,4,43,197,17109],"class_list":{"0":"post-269531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallas-stars","12":"tag-dallasstars","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-stars","18":"tag-toronto-raptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}