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Mavs' Cooper Flagg ties LeBron James' young player NBA scoring record to the exact day

On a crazy night in the NBA, one filled with buzzer beaters and exceptional performances, it would've been easy to miss the moment that Cooper Flagg fully arrived.

But that happened for the 18-year-old Dallas Mavericks rookie, the No. 1 overall pick out of Duke, the potential savior for a franchise that momentarily tarnished its future with a terrible trade. It was just one play, but it said everything.

Flagg, in a neck-and-neck showdown with the Milwaukee Bucks , caught the ball on the right wing in heavy traffic. He spun away from his defender, a move not unlike the one that NHL superstar Connor McDavid was doing about the same time on ice far away.

The spin created sp

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