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Cooper Flagg’s 34 points not enough as Mavericks fall to Rockets
HOUSTON (AP) — Amen Thompson had 21 points, nine assists and eight rebounds to lead the Houston Rockets to a 111-107 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday night. An alley-oop dunk by Thompson...
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Cooper Flagg grew up watching the Celtics. Now he’s playing against them.
Like a lot of young basketball fans in Maine, Cooper Flagg grew up watching the Boston Celtics. This week, he’ll be playing against them for the first time. On Tuesday night, the Newport native and...
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Celtics trade Anfernee Simons to Bulls for Nikola Vucevic, 2nd round pick
The Celtics have made their first trade ahead of Thursday’s deadline. They shipped Anfernee Simons and a second-round pick to the Bulls for Nikola Vucevic and a second-round pick, a league source...
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Cooper Flagg has 36-point masterpiece in loss against the Celtics
DALLAS — The Mavericks hit a new low Tuesday, but Cooper Flagg reached yet another high. Dallas suffered a 110-100 loss to the short-handed Boston Celtics on national television and increased their...
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Massive Anthony Davis trade shows Mavs are shifting to Cooper Flagg’s...
It’s been nearly three months since Nico Harrison was fired as general manager of the Mavericks, and the player he preferred to help bring the franchise another championship over Luka Doncic is headed...
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Jayson Tatum is practicing with the Maine Celtics as part of injury rehab
Jayson Tatum appears to be inching closer to a return to the floor for the Celtics this season as he recovers from an Achilles tear. The team announced Monday that the Celtics star has been assigned...
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In Lakers’ win over Mavericks, LeBron James becomes oldest player to have...
LOS ANGELES — Deep in the 23rd season of the longest career in NBA history, LeBron James is still dropping triple-doubles — on the Dallas Mavericks and on Father Time. James became the oldest player...
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Cooper Flagg to guest on the ‘Tonight Show’
Newport native and top NBA draft pick Cooper Flagg will appear on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” next week. The Dallas Mavericks forward is scheduled to be a guest on the show Monday. He...
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Cooper Flagg’s parents grew up as Celtics fans. But they won’t be rooting for...
Plenty of longtime Celtics fans from Maine might feel torn about who to cheer for Friday. But not Kelly and Ralph Flagg. Yes, they grew up in Maine rooting for Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics. But...
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Injury upgrades for ‘good friends’ Jason Tatum and Cooper Flagg could make...
For anyone hoping to see Jason Tatum and Cooper Flagg face off against each other Friday night in Boston, things are trending in the right direction. Both players have been sidelined with injuries —...
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The Cooper Flagg-Celtics matchup is so popular the Downeaster train added...
Izzy Casaletto is usually driving the Downeaster train between Maine and Boston. But on Friday, the engineer was onboard in a different role: basketball fan. Casaletto, who grew up in North Anson and...
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‘He had this game circled’: How Cooper Flagg got healthy in time to play the...
It wasn’t a sure thing that Cooper Flagg would play in Friday night’s homecoming of sorts against the Boston Celtics. Flagg has been nursing a sprained left foot and had missed eight straight games....
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Watch: This Celtics legend says Cooper Flagg reminds him of Larry Bird
Cooper Flagg grew up watching tape of the 1980s Celtics. And now some of those Boston legends are watching him turn into an NBA rising star. Flagg has been fielding a lot of comparisons to Larry Bird,...
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Maine fans take over the TD Garden for Cooper Flagg’s New England return
It was a home game Friday night — both for the Boston Celtics, and for Cooper Flagg. The Dallas Mavericks rookie forward was technically on the visiting team, but the fans at TD Garden were out in...
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Watch Cooper Flagg describe the ‘incredible’ energy at his Boston homecoming
Lots of people were looking forward to Cooper Flagg’s first NBA game at the TD Garden in Boston on Friday night — Flagg included. And did the experience live up to the expectations? For sure, Flagg...
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‘It’s a culture thing’: How the Celtics defied expectations with another...
The Celtics are officially going to the NBA playoffs. While that wasn’t necessarily in doubt with the C’s maintaining their No. 2 seed in the East, they made it official Sunday. The C’s blew out the...
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Magic hold off Mavs despite rookie sensation Cooper Flagg’s 51 points
When the Magic took down the Mavericks by one point inside Kia Center on March 5, Orlando needed a last-second dunk from Wendell Carter Jr. to escape at home. The second and final meeting of the...
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Cooper Flagg’s historic weekend catapults him back to Rookie of Year favorite
Newport’s Cooper Flagg just accomplished something that only five NBA rookies had done before him. And they’re all in the Hall of Fame now. Flagg joined Micheal Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem...
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Mavs ready to pivot to future with Cooper Flagg after season mercifully ends...
The finale to one of the worst Mavericks regular seasons in nearly a decade reached an anticlimactic point early in the second quarter. Cooper Flagg clutched his left leg, hobbled off the court and...
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UMaine basketball star Adrianna Smith signs contract with Australia league
Adrianna Smith is taking her basketball talent Down Under. The former University of Maine two-time America East Player of the Year has signed with the Dandenong Rangers of the NBL1, Australia’s top...
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