Teenager Flagg breaks 46-year NBA points record but Hornets beat Mavericks

Cooper Flagg scores 49 points, the astir by a teen successful a azygous NBA game, but Charlotte Hornets bushed Dallas Mavericks.

Kon Knueppel made 2 escaped throws with 4.1 seconds near for a career-high 34 points and the Charlotte Hornets bushed the Dallas Mavericks 123-121, spoiling Duke roommate Cooper Flagg’s 49-point game.

Flagg, who turned 19 successful December, broke the NBA grounds for points successful a crippled by a teen. Cliff Robinson acceptable the erstwhile grounds of 45 astatine property 19 for New Jersey successful a crippled against Detroit connected March 9, 1980.

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Flagg acceptable vocation highs with 20 tract goals connected 29 shots, and besides had 10 rebounds.

Knueppel grabbed an errant walk by Flagg adjacent midcourt with 7 seconds near and the people tied. He drove to the handbasket and was fouled by Flagg arsenic the shot lodged betwixt the rim and the backboard. Flagg’s changeable astatine the buzzer to nonstop it to overtime deed the backmost of the rim.

Knueppel made 8 3-pointers to acceptable a rookie grounds for the Hornets, who person won 5 consecutive games for their longest winning streak since a five-game tally successful February 2023.

Brandon Miller scored 23 points, his ninth consecutive crippled with astatine slightest 20 points, for Charlotte. LaMelo added 22, hitting six 3-pointers.

Klay Thompson scored 16 points disconnected the seat for Dallas, shooting 4 of 11 connected 3s. The Mavericks person mislaid 3 consecutive — each astatine location — pursuing a season-best, four-game winning streak.

The Hornets swept a roadworthy back-to-back portion the Mavericks were swept successful a location back-to-back.

The crippled was the archetypal NBA gathering betwixt Flagg and Knueppel, the 2024-25 Duke freshmen.

Mark Aguirre, Dallas’s lone erstwhile first-overall draftee aft the franchise’s archetypal play successful 1980-81, became the team’s 5th subordinate to person his jersey retired during a halftime ceremony.