Hoops Tonight - Cooper Flagg vs. Kon Knueppel: NBA Rookie of the Year DEEP DIVE | Mavericks x Hornets
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Jason breaks down the NBA Rookie of the Year race between Dallas Mavericks star Cooper Flagg and Charlotte Hornets guard Kon Knueppel. He discusses the odds of each player winning the award before doing a thorough breakdown of the rookie season each player has had.
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| 0:53.4 | All right. Welcome to Hoops tonight here at the volume. Happy Wednesday, everybody. |
| 0:54.6 | Hope all of you guys are having a great week. |
| 0:56.8 | As promised, we are continuing our midseason awards check-in, focusing on rookie of the year today. |
| 1:03.3 | I'm really going to be doing deep dives on Cooper Flag and Conniple. |
| 1:07.1 | I want to talk about specifically why Cooper is such a big favorite to win |
| 1:11.3 | rookie of the year. I think there's some debate there. And I think it's okay to just admit |
| 1:15.6 | that Kahn's having an amazing season, even though it doesn't necessarily mean he can |
| 1:20.0 | supersede Cooper there. I want to talk about that. Then we're going to actually dive into each of |
| 1:23.3 | those individual players, how their games have translated to the NBA so far, where their |
| 1:28.3 | areas of opportunity are, and what I expect their careers to look like in the long run. |
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| 1:38.5 | video notifications so that you can stay up to speed throughout the season. And then last but |
| 1:42.6 | at least, if you guys want to get mailbag questions into our mailbags, drop them in our full episodes on YouTube in the |
| 1:47.6 | comments and we'll get to them on Fridays throughout the remainder of the season. So, |
| 1:51.0 | rookie of the year, Hard Rock Bet has pretty straightforward lines here. Cooper is a massive favorite |
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