MIAMI (AP) — Cooper Flagg left college after one year. His education, however, continues.

The No. 1 pick in this year’s draft has been part of more losses with the Dallas Mavericks this season than he experienced in his last four years of basketball combined. Duke lost four times last season, Florida’s Montverde Academy lost a total of three games in 2022-23 and 2023-24, and Maine’s Nokomis Regional lost one in 2021-22.

Championship contending has been an annual event for Flagg. Duke went to the Final Four in his lone season. Montverde was considered the best high school team in the country in his final year there. Nokomis won a state title with Flagg leading the way.

The Mavericks are next-to-last in the Western Conference right now at 5-14. And after the latest of those losses in Miam

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