{"id":231766,"date":"2026-03-06T03:44:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/mavericks-star-rookie-cooper-flagg-reaches-major-milestone-at-historic-pace\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T03:44:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:44:43","slug":"mavericks-star-rookie-cooper-flagg-reaches-major-milestone-at-historic-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/mavericks-star-rookie-cooper-flagg-reaches-major-milestone-at-historic-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks star rookie Cooper Flagg reaches major milestone at historic pace\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/dallas_mavericks\/77\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> star rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_basketball\/players\/cooper_flagg\/909050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cooper Flagg<\/a>&#8216;s NBA debut season wasn&#8217;t historic already, it just secured its place as one of the best ever on Thursday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even though the Mavericks fell 115-114 to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/orlando_magic\/122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orlando Magic<\/a>, Flagg, 19, achieved a milestone most players need years to reach. In the early minutes of the first quarter, Flagg grabbed an offensive rebound and then used the glass to secure two points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Only LeBron James got to 1,000 at a younger age than Cooper Flagg\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Flagg&#8217;s first points of the game put him over 1,000 for the season, making him the second youngest player in league history to reach the mark. Only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/lebron_james\/4544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LeBron James<\/a> got to 1,000 at a younger age.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NBA&#8217;s 2025 No. 1 overall pick finished the game with 18 points despite only sinking 7-of-22 shots from the field. He also added five rebounds and six assists on the night.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/mavericks_star_rookie_cooper_flagg_reaches_major_milestone_at_historic_pace\/s1_13132_43556024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Dallas Mavericks star rookie Cooper Flagg&#8216;s NBA debut season wasn&#8217;t historic already, it just secured its place as one of the best ever on Thursday night.\u00a0 Even though the Mavericks fell 115-114 to the Orlando Magic, Flagg, 19, achieved a milestone most players need years to reach. In the early minutes of the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}