MINNEAPOLIS — Dallas Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg will sit out the staff’s first recreation again from the All-Star break at Minnesota on Friday night time due to a left midfoot sprain, an damage that saved the No. 1 pick of the Rising Stars occasion.
Coach Jason Kidd informed reporters in Minnesota on Thursday that Flagg was thought of day-to-day.
The 19-year-old additionally was dominated out of the ultimate recreation earlier than the break towards the Los Angeles Lakers after getting injured in a loss at Phoenix on Feb. 10. The staff stated an MRI revealed Flagg’s damage. The Mavericks’ loss to the Lakers was their ninth in a row. It is the membership’s longest shedding streak since 1998.
The previous Duke standout attended two video games at his alma mater through the break. Flagg was seen in a strolling boot when the Blue Devils beat Clemson on Saturday however wasn’t carrying one in a photograph the staff posted Thursday on X of him on the point of board the aircraft for the journey to play the Timberwolves. Dallas has two extra street video games after that.
The Mavericks (19-35) are out of competition within the Western Convention playoff race and headed to the draft lottery for the second yr in a row. Dallas transformed a 1.8% probability for the draft rights to Flagg final summer season.
The go to to the Timberwolves would be the sixth recreation sat out by Flagg, who’s averaging 20.4 factors and 6.6 assists. The primary professional recreation the 2025 Related Press males’s basketball participant of the yr sat out was due to an sickness in November.
