The Dallas Mavericks are looking forward to what should be an interesting season with number one draft pick Cooper Flagg at the helm. Flagg's arrival helped minimize the pain of the disastrous Luka Doncic trade to the Los Angeles Lakers, and once Kyrie Irving is healthy, Dallas could have a legitimate chance to compete in the Western Conference.
Flagg is still getting used to the luxury of being a high-profile NBA player, and recently, his mother, Kelly, made sure to keep her son in check when it comes to buying his first vehicle.
“Do not buy a Bugatti right away,” she said, per Chime, via Shane Garry Acedara of Yahoo Life.
She later stated that she thinks $180,000 is the maximum amount that her son should spend on his first car, while Cooper Flagg opined that it should be $200,000.
Strange times for the Mavericks
Heading into the draft lottery night, the Mavericks figured to be in one of the worst positions in the NBA, with a roster full of aging and injury-prone vets and little to no young talent on the roster in the wake of the Doncic trade.
However, that all changed a few hours later when the Mavericks were awarded the first pick in the draft and thereby the chance to draft Flagg number one overall.
Flagg will have some understandable growing pains, as any young player does when transitioning to the NFL level, but he'll have one of the league's best mentors in big man Anthony Davis to help show him how to be a forward in the NBA.
Kyrie Irving is expected to miss a good chunk of the upcoming season due to the torn ACL he suffered in March, but once he is back, there's a legitimate chance that the Mavericks could be a competitive team in the vaunted Western Conference.
Even if things don't work out with the core of Flagg, Davis, and Irving, Mavericks fans can rest assured that they have a young star player who they can at least watch blossom for a few years until trading him just as he's about to enter his prime.
