{"id":359156,"date":"2025-11-06T06:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/359156\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:02:12","slug":"mavericks-cooper-flagg-sets-aac-ablaze-with-alley-oop-finish-against-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/359156\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks\u2019 Cooper Flagg sets AAC ablaze with alley-oop finish against Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Late in the first quarter, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> were stuck in the mud against the lowly Pelicans, trailing 24-15 with about two minutes left in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">But rookie star Cooper Flagg set the American Airlines Center ablaze with a thunderous alley-oop finish. Brandon Williams grabbed a missed shot, pushed the ball up the floor in transition to Naji Marshall. Marshall attacked the rim and served up a lob to Flagg who finished the dunk with authority, absorbing contact from Karlo Matkovic for an and-one. Flagg made the ensuing free throw to complete the and-one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">It was the second time in the young season that Flagg turned heads with a poster dunk, as he also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2025\/10\/26\/watch-mavericks-cooper-flagg-throws-down-huge-poster-dunk-against-the-raptors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2025\/10\/26\/watch-mavericks-cooper-flagg-throws-down-huge-poster-dunk-against-the-raptors\/\">went viral on Oct. 26 with an incredible dunk against the Raptors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Watch his latest jam below.<\/p>\n<p>Mavericks<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Be the smartest Mavericks fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p>High-flying action: See photos of Cooper Flagg&#8217;s alley-oop, more from Mavs&#8217; game vs. Pelicans<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4096 \/ 2731\"   class=\"dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__Kyr7i w-full h-full object-cover absolute left-1\/2 dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain dmnc_images-modern-image-module__P3kZ4 w-full\" width=\"4096\" height=\"2731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/JG2CWLS6DZE5ZMKYSYYWAGCBNY.jpg\" alt=\"Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg (32) drives the baseline and New Orleans Pelicans...\"\/>View Gallery<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Find more Mavericks coverage from <\/b><b>The Dallas Morning News<\/b><b> here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late in the first quarter, the Dallas Mavericks were stuck in the mud against the lowly Pelicans, trailing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":359157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,2494,1596,3139,6650,1260,62,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,989],"class_list":{"0":"post-359156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cooper-flagg","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-mavericks","12":"tag-mavericks","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-video"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115501239142056110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}