Dallas Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg is in the middle of a heated battle for one of the NBA's biggest awards. The Rookie of the Year is up for grabs, and Flagg is competing with his former Duke roommate, Kon Knueppel.
While Adam Silver is pushing new rules to curb tanking, Mark Cuban isn’t buying it. The NBA recently presented multiple anti-tanking proposals to its Board of Governors, hoping to reshape the draft lottery system.
Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd has a blueprint for rookie Cooper Flagg’s success. It involves learning directly from LeBron James. Kidd believes Flagg can adopt James’s keys to longevity, constant improvement, and winning to build his own path to greatness.
Heroes run the NBA, but every story also needs a villain. For some franchises, it's a particularly hated opponent, but every now and then, it's one of their own.
The Dallas Mavericks rookie star Cooper Flagg made headlines on Sunday being the first rookie this century to record back-to-back 40-point games. With his dominance, the Mavs ended the game with a 134-128 win.
We are four games from the end of this season. You may be surprised to learn that the season began in October and not last February, a time that’s often felt like one continuous trudge through drama and losing for 15 months.
For weeks, the Rookie of the Year race felt like it was leaning one way. Kon Knueppel had built a strong, steady case, all with efficient scoring, a defined role, and meaningful contributions to a Charlotte team fighting for relevance.
When the Dallas Mavericks shocked the league by trading away franchise cornerstone Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers, most people assumed the team had just destroyed its future.
Basketball has changed so, so much since it was first played in the late 1800s. The NBA has a lot to do with this, and there are even a handful of players who can be credited with influencing significant shifts on their own.
Cooper Flagg may have flipped the Rookie of the Year race back in his direction with a weekend scoring outburst, writes Tim MacMahon of ESPN. After posting
From the moment he entered the NBA as a teenager, Cooper Flagg has been compared to LeBron James. Now as he's nearing the end of his historic rookie season, those comparisons have only intensified. The rookie reflected on playing against James after Sunday's Mavericks-Lakers matchup.
Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd is among the latest to voice his opinion on the NBA’s 65-game rule as it relates to Luka Doncic’s situation. Doncic is ineligible for major postseason awards, as he’s been ruled out for the remainder of the 2025-26 NBA regular season with just 64 games played.
For the first time in nearly three months, the Dallas Mavericks finally won a game at the American Airlines Center against a depleted Lakers squad. The Mavericks offense was clicking all night, with the paint scoring being especially impressive.
The Dallas Mavericks’ 2026 NBA season will go down in the history books as the best worst season for the franchise, and there are good reasons why. Despite having the most confident Rookie of the Year candidate in Cooper Flagg, the Mavs failed to hold up to standards in the playoff contention.
For what has felt like the entire season, Dallas Mavericks star Cooper Flagg has been playing catch up to college teammate Kon Knueppel in the 2026 NBA Rookie of the Year award race.
Dallas Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg is having a hell of a debut season in the NBA. He recently became the first teenager to cross the 50-point mark in
Cooper Flagg is making a pretty big statement in his quest for the NBA's Rookie of the Year Award. After scoring 51 points for the Dallas Mavericks in their loss to the Orlando Magic on Friday night, he followed it up with a 45-point effort in a 134-128 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday.
Even during another loss for the Dallas Mavericks, rookie Cooper Flagg continued to make his debut season historic. The No. 1 overall pick from the 2025 NBA Draft put together a performance the league had never seen before.