Cooper Flagg remains one of the most special young basketball players on the planet.
And on Sunday night, he did something no one has ever done in NBA history, not even LeBron James.
Flagg’s stats in a Dallas overtime win were 21 points, eight rebounds, five assists, two blocks and a steal.
According to ESPN’s Tim MacMahon, no 18-year old has ever had all those stats in the same NBA game.
He added that James did the four numbers that aren’t blocks on three occasions.
Flagg is just special.
He showed that even before he arrived at Duke when he played on the U.S. Select Team to prepare the Olympians for Paris 2024.
Then he showed it with the Blue Devils as the unquestioned best player in the country from the moment he showed up on campus.
And now he’s showing with the Mavs, having been the youngest player in the entire 2025 NBA Draft class, that he’s a rising superstar.
Dallas has a weird mix of young and old right now.
Eventually, the Mavs will be a team built entirely around Flagg.
And with Coop as the centerpiece, the Mavericks can be anything they set their minds out to be.
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