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19-Year-Old Flagg Drops 51 Points in 11-Point Loss | Apr 6, 2026
Nineteen years old and Cooper Flagg just became the youngest player in NBA history to drop fifty — but somehow the Mavs STILL lost by eleven points. Welcome to The Sports Hangover Daily, I'm Michael Benatar. Let's talk about what we just witnessed in Dallas because I'm still trying to process it. Cooper Flagg — a nineteen-year-old rookie who probably can't even rent a car yet — just torched the Magic for fifty-one points in a 138-127 loss. Yeah, you heard that right. Fifty-one points and they lost by eleven. That's the most Cooper Flagg thing ever. Flagg went off for nineteen of thirty from…
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