Cooper Flagg scored a season-high 43 points as the Dallas Mavericks overturned a 13-point deficit to beat the Indiana Pacers 125-122 on Monday night, in one of the individual performances of the young NBA season.
Flagg, 19, finished with 43 points, 10 rebounds, six assists and three steals on 16-of-25 shooting, according to Sports Illustrated and NBC Sports, and became only the second teenager in NBA history to record 40 points, 10 rebounds and five assists in a game — after Kevin Durant for the Seattle SuperSonics in the last game of the 2007-08 season.
Kyrie Irving added 35 points, hitting seven of 10 three-pointers, as the pair combined for 78 of Dallas’s 125 points. The Mavericks trailed 66-56 at half-time before Flagg took over, scoring 30 of his 43 points after the break.
The closing minutes
The finish was as dramatic as the comeback. Flagg hit a shot over Pascal Siakam to reach 41 points, and then pulled up from 18 feet with 62 seconds left to put Dallas two points ahead, according to the Dallas Sports Journal. He did it again with 26.3 seconds left, and the Mavericks got the stop they needed to close out a 125-122 win.
It was Dallas’s third consecutive victory and pushed them to 7-4, while the Pacers fell to 3-8. The Mavericks were playing the second night of a back-to-back, having beaten Brooklyn 130-93 on Sunday, and Flagg’s 43 points followed a 25-point, 12-assist performance in that game.
What comes next
Flagg has now scored at least 20 points in seven of his first 10 games and is averaging 25.9 points, 6.9 rebounds and 6.9 assists, according to NBC Sports. Dallas open a three-game road trip on Thursday against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Sources: Sports Illustrated (Nov 10, 2026); NBC Sports (Nov 10, 2026); Yardbarker (Nov 9, 2026); Dallas Sports Journal (Nov 10, 2026).
