{"id":17077,"date":"2026-01-16T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=17077"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:55:01","slug":"mavericks-cooper-flagg-ruled-out-vs-jazz-with-left-ankle-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=17077","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks&#8217; Cooper Flagg ruled out vs. Jazz with left ankle sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Tim MacMahon<span class=\"timestamp \">Jan 15, 2026, 02:47 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\"><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009<\/li>\n<li>Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks<\/li>\n<li>Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>DALLAS &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-mavericks\">Mavericks<\/a> rookie <a data-player-guid=\"6cf6ea11-b3e4-35fd-bb91-f9f6caf6e2c8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5041939\/cooper-flagg\">Cooper Flagg<\/a> has been ruled out for Thursday night&#8217;s home game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"77cea2fb-1388-b7c8-d171-2e72b3aecbfb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/utah\/utah-jazz\">Utah Jazz<\/a> due to a left ankle sprain.<\/p>\n<p>The only previous game that Flagg, the No. 1 pick, missed this season was due to illness in a Nov. 19 loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"61719eb2-11c3-4e3d-90c3-0a1319fd850b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ny\/new-york-knicks\">New York Knicks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47615990\/mavericks-cooper-flagg-exits-vs-nuggets-ankle-sprain\">suffered the injury<\/a> in the second quarter of Wednesday&#8217;s loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c4aceb39-0eb9-a30b-1120-9cb5b12b677a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\">Denver Nuggets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47603292\/sources-anthony-davis-forgoes-surgery-reevaluated-6-weeks\" class=\"img-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/r1592740_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Flagg twisted the ankle while defending Denver&#8217;s <a data-player-guid=\"657d52d7-47ba-335d-b936-531e62eced90\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4576087\/peyton-watson\">Peyton Watson<\/a> on a drive with 6:01 remaining in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg, who was called for a foul on the play, limped off the floor and straight into the tunnel with Mavs athletic trainer Jana Austin following him. He returned to the game with 2:35 remaining in the quarter but winced on multiple occasions while playing the rest of the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg did not return after halftime. The team announced early in the third quarter that Flagg, the Rookie of the Year favorite who is averaging 18.8 points, 6.4 rebounds and 4.2 assists, had been ruled out the rest of the game.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second consecutive contest that Flagg twisted that ankle. He returned in Monday&#8217;s win over the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"926db769-d35e-e282-9d7e-a05001d774ab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bkn\/brooklyn-nets\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> after getting the ankle retaped.\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47621913\/mavericks-cooper-flagg-ankle-listed-doubtful-vs-jazz\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim MacMahonJan 15, 2026, 02:47 PM ET Close Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM DALLAS &#8212; Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg has been ruled out for Thursday night&#8217;s home game against the Utah Jazz due to a left ankle sprain. The only previous &#8230; <a title=\"Mavericks&#8217; Cooper Flagg ruled out vs. Jazz with left ankle sprain\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=17077\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mavericks&#8217; Cooper Flagg ruled out vs. Jazz with left ankle sprain\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mavericks-Cooper-Flagg-ruled-out-vs-Jazz-with-left-ankle.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17079,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17077\/revisions\/17079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}