Overview
- Flagg powered Dallas to a 134-128 win over the Lakers on Sunday with 45 points, nine assists and eight rebounds in a near triple-double.
- The Mavericks rookie followed Friday’s 51-point outburst with another 40-plus game, becoming the first rookie since Allen Iverson in 1996-97 to post back-to-back 40s.
- His 96 points over the two-game stretch placed him in elite company, with Elias Sports Bureau noting only Wilt Chamberlain had reached 96 or more as a rookie across two games.
- According to the NBA, the matchup produced a first in league history as a teenager and a 40-plus-year-old each scored at least 20 points in the same game.
- DraftKings shifted its Rookie of the Year odds after Sunday’s win, listing Flagg as the favorite over Knueppel with a week left in the regular season.