LAS VEGAS – It’s often been said that five days in Las Vegas is like two weeks anywhere else.
It certainly feels like it.
But it also was a very fruitful first half of the NBA Summer League for the Mavericks. And Cooper Flagg in particular.

There’s a great reason why the Mavericks are unlikely to play the No. 1 overall draft pick any more in the Vegas spectacle. He’s got nothing more to prove. We’ll explain what we mean in our top takeaways from the Mavericks’ first two games of the summer league.