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Cooper Flagg Makes History With 51 Points as a Teenager | Apr 5, 2026
Cooper Flagg just became the first teenager in NBA history to drop fifty-plus points, and honestly? This kid might already be better than half the All-Stars in this league. Welcome to The Sports Hangover Daily, I'm Michael Benatar. Let's start with what we just witnessed last night because Cooper Flagg didn't just have a good game — he rewrote the damn record books. The nineteen-year-old Mavericks rookie dropped fifty-one points in a loss to Orlando, becoming the youngest player ever to hit fifty in an NBA game. Not just the youngest rookie, the youngest period. He went nineteen of thirty…
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