Flagg excited the crowd\u00a0at the 4:30 mark of the first quarter, jamming home the first points in the Summer League. He finished the first quarter with six points, one rebound and a steal.<\/p>\n
Early in the second quarter, Flagg nearly sent every fan in the building into a frenzy when he made a spin move into the paint and attempted a one-handed\u00a0slam dunk over 7-foot Christian Koloko. The ball caromed off the back of the rim and still drew plenty of oohs and ahhs.<\/p>\n
Flagg finished the first half with eight points on 4-of-11 shooting, including 0 for 3 from 3-point range. He also had three rebounds, two steals and one assist.<\/p>\n
Generally filled with Lakers fans when the team plays in the summer, the arena was full of emotion with a fair share of Mavericks fans in attendance to see the 2025 National college player of the year.<\/p>\n
Like 15-year-old Baer Epple, 15, who was seated with his father Chad in the third row from the court, donning Dirk Nowitzki\u2019s Mavericks jersey.<\/p>\n
Epple said he\u2019s been following Flagg since before his Duke days, beginning with his junior year at Nokomis Regional High School in Newport, Maine.<\/p>\n
The 15-year-old who is in Las Vegas from Seattle for an AAU tournament said he\u2019s been a Mavericks fan for roughly four years.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven more of a fan now that they got Cooper Flagg,\u201d Epple said. \u201cHopefully he does good, that\u2019d be pretty cool to see. I don\u2019t want him to be like a bust or anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mavericks coach Jason Kidd told The Associated Press before the game he\u2019s looking for nothing more than effort and grit in his team\u2019s opening game, as he wants them all playing hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis summer league is a little different when you have this type of turnout,\u201d Kidd said. \u201cBut the guys have had a couple practices. There\u2019s going to be some turnovers. I just want to see how they respond to a couple of mistakes being made, no one\u2019s gonna play a perfect game and be unselfish.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for his prize draft pick: \u201cWe\u2019re all excited,\u201d Kidd said of Flagg. \u201cSeen enough of him on tape, so now it\u2019s good to see him on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flagg excited the crowd\u00a0at the 4:30 mark of the first quarter, jamming home the first points in the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2494,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-55672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cooper-flagg","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114832205664935942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55672","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=55672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}