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Cooper Flagg's HONESTY During Rookie of the Year Ceremony Signals Need for Dallas Mavericks Changes

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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Cooper Flagg was awarded NBA Rookie of the Year as the Dallas Mavericks celebrated his stellar first season, highlighting the Mavs’ investment in building a future around their rising star. The press conference featured key moments with Cooper Flagg discussing his challenges, the importance of support from Kyrie Irving, and the excitement surrounding the Mavs in the NBA landscape.

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0:00.0

One more thing. Cooper Flag accepted his rookie of the year award and there's one thing that's for sure. He is tired of the losing.

0:08.4

Welcome here still locked on to the Dallas Mavericks. Your team every day. My name is Nick Engstead. It's one more thing and we're talking about Cooper Flagg's rookie of the year press conference where he accepted the award. A nice looking award. Crystal, little Wilk Chamber Chamberlain, gold, Wilt Chamberlain in the

0:21.3

middle. Isaac, did you know he's the only other rookie to score like 96 points over two-game

0:27.0

span? I did know that. Yeah, I did know that. It's a pretty cool accomplishment. We're going to

0:33.1

talk about all of our takeaways from the press conference and all that and hear from Cooper Flagg and talk about the other players that were there and all that I

0:41.3

think that was an interesting takeaway but first I just want to start with with

0:44.4

this Cooper Flagg talked about what this meant to him obviously was asked all

0:48.8

kinds of different questions about the season con can't nipple all that

0:53.1

winning the rookie of the year. The one thing that

0:55.4

stood out to me was this clip where he talks about the moments and the moments, the low moments

1:01.6

this season and how many there were. And you don't hear like an introspective Cooper flag

1:06.9

very often, but this is a moment where you go, man, he has thought about this. This was,

1:10.5

this was hard for him and he was struggling with this. Let's hear from him.

1:15.7

I mean, it's just confidence, like you said. There's moments throughout the year where, you know, I was at a low. There's a lot of lows.

1:23.7

Obviously, battling with, you know, the losses and struggling at times. But, you know, I think

1:28.0

just having, you know, my support system around me, my family, my teammates, you know, lifting me up

1:31.9

and getting me through some of that stuff. It just helped me with my confidence overall. And I think,

1:37.6

you know, this award is just, you know, another, another step in the right direction and giving

1:41.2

more confidence moving forward. The part where he comes back and he says, there were a lot of flows.

1:47.3

That one, we have said over and over this season.

1:51.2

He has lost more games this season with the Mavericks than he has probably his entire life of organized basketball in any other way.

1:59.2

I mean, probably even one-on-one in the driveway with his brother.

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