Mavericks fans will laugh at the newest Cooper Flagg Rookie of the Year excuse

The best is yet to come for Cooper Flagg and the Dallas Mavericks, and Mavs fans are eagerly awaiting to see if their future superstar will be named Rookie of the Year. Since the emergence of Charlotte Hornets guard Kon Knueppel, the media has created a narrative to give the award to him.

The reason? It seems that winning all of a sudden matters more than raw talent over the course of the season. For an MVP award, it's easy to see winning being a factor, but the Rookie of the Year award has never been decided by wins. Very few times has a Rookie of the Year ever impacted his team, leading them to the playoffs, or much less the NBA Finals. The Hornets are winning, but it only took one playoff game to show why Knueppel isn't close to winning the award.

Flagg has already had some amazing individual performances that should've separated him from the pack long ago. This includes a one-on-one duel with his former teammate Knueppel in a loss, but Flagg's 49-point performance against his fellow competition showed us everything we needed to see. Unfortunately, it's still not enough, and it's getting silly at this point.

Cooper Flagg losing ROTY because of losses would be absolutely foolish

Wins have never been a factor for the award. MVP is obviously different, but the best rookie is usually going to one of the worst teams. Even though the Mavs missed the playoffs last season, they were actually one win away from a playoff berth, but lost in the Play-In Tournament to the Memphis Grizzlies. Of course, the Mavs just got lucky by getting Flagg, but playoffs or not, Flagg was the best rookie this season.

Draymond Green was on his own podcast and said Knueppel should win the award because the NBA never stopped being about winning. Of course, winning means everything in any league, but take a look at Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs.

It was obvious that Wembanyama would win the award during his rookie year, but Chet Holmgren didn't look bad either as a do-it-all big man on the No. 1 team in the conference. The Spurs didn't win much in Wemby's rookie year, but it didn't matter. LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers were far from a winning team in the 2003-04 season as well.

If we think wins matter more than anything else, Philadelphia 76ers guard V.J. Edgecombe should be in the running for the Rookie of the Year. He has his Sixers in the playoffs, about to face the Boston Celtics, and has had a tremendous rookie season.

Cooper Flagg's argument to win ROTY is an open-and-shut case

Mavs fans have always felt like the basketball gods have been out to get them, but getting Flagg in the lottery was a gift that Dallas needed. The season didn't go as fans wanted, but Flagg's rookie season has been compared to the greatest of all time. That alone should win him the award.

Flagg is the first rookie since Michael Jordan to lead his team in points, rebounds, assists, and steals in the season.

It's already rare when you talk about a rookie and Jordan in the same sentence, but he was also the first teenager to score 50 points in a game. That alone added to his case, but when you're on any list with Jordan, it should be an open-and-shut case.

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