Cooper Flagg Rookie Year Player Prop Odds, Best Bets: Specials, Points
Sportsbooks including FD and DK are already offering various ways to bet on Cooper Flagg's rookie season, including points and double-double prop markets.
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Like Victor Wembanyama and fellow former Duke Blue Devil Zion Williamson, Cooper Flagg is already an NBA star, months before he scores his first bucket for the Mavericks.
For bettors, that means that in addition to his 2026 NBA Rookie of the Year odds (which are as short as -225 at BetMGM -- implied probability: 69.2 percent), there are a number of other ways to bet on how he'll fare as a rookie.
If you think he could become the first rookie to win NBA MVP honors since Wes Unseld in 1969, he's listed at +50000 (500-to-1) at DraftKings, bet365 and FanDuel.
Few players get their own dedicated section/page at top sportsbooks like FanDuel and DraftKings less than 24 hours after hearing their name called at the draft, but Flagg fans already have no shortage of fun, unique ways to bet on his highly anticipated rookie campaign.
Cooper Flagg Rookie Season Player Prop Bets
DraftKings offers a few special parlays like Flagg to average 18+ PPG + Flagg to average 6+ RPG (+285) and Flagg to average 18+ PPG + DAL Mavericks to win the Southwest Division (+3500), it also offers over/under markets on Flagg's points and rebounds per game numbers as a rookie:
Cooper Flagg points per game: Over 16.9 (-115); Under 16.9 (-115)
Cooper Flagg rebounds per game: Over 6.1 (-115); Under 6.1 (-115)
Player Prop Bet Specials For Cooper Flagg (FD, bet365, BetMGM)
The best available odds for these props appear in bold:
Cooper Flagg To Score 30+ Points in his First Game in the 2025-26 Regular Season (+2000 at FanDuel)
Cooper Flagg To Record a Triple Double in Any Game in the 2025-26 Regular Season (-120 at FD; -120 at bet365; -115 at BetMGM )
) Cooper Flagg To Score 40+ Points in Any Game in the 2025-26 Regular Season (+300 at FD; +300 at bet365; +350 at BetMGM )
) Cooper Flagg To Score 50+ Points in Any Game in the 2025-26 Regular Season (+1600 at FD; +1600 at bet365; +2000 at BetMGM)
For historical context, consider that the most recent rookie to record a triple-double was Josh Giddey back in 2022.
In addition to Giddey's 17-point, 14-assist, 13-rebound night for the Thunder in '22, LaMelo Ball (Hornets, 2021), Luka Doncic (Mavericks, 2019), Markelle Fultz (76ers, 2018) and Lonzo Ball (Lakers, 2017) all recorded triple-doubles as rookies, though no one in the '22-23, '23-24 or '24-25 classes pulled off the feat.
We not recommend betting on Flagg to score either 40 or 50 points as a rookie.
It wouldn't be completely unprecendented for a rookie to break 40 points (LeBron James did it in '03-04, and Wemby also had a 40-point night in '23-24, to name two examples), but Wembanyama was the only NBA Rookie of the Year in the last decade to have a 40-point game.
Another reason not to back Flagg to have a 40- or 50-point night next year is the fact that he scored 30 points more just twice in 37 games during his dominant '24-25 season at Duke.
Best Cooper Flagg Player Prop Bet For 2025-26
The price here isn't exactly juicy, per se, but if there's one Flagg prop bet worth taking right now, it's Cooper Flagg To Record a Triple Double in Any Game in the 2025-26 Regular Season (-115 at BetMGM) -- 1 unit.
As we mentioned earlier, while recording a triple-double as a rookie is certainly impressive, it's not a huge rarity.
As an outstanding rebounder at 6-foot-8 (he averaged 7.5 rpg at Duke last year), Cooper Flagg double-doubles should be a more common occurrence at the NBA level after he finished his lone season at Duke with seven of them.
His over/under scoring and rebounding numbers tell us he should average somewhere around 17 points and 6 rebounds per game as a rookie.
Flagg averaged just over 4 assists per game at Duke. But as one of the initiators of the Dallas offense -- especially until Kyrie Irving recovers from his ACL injury last season -- I think he's plenty capable of a few nights with double-digit assists.
I'm confident he'll able to combine solid scoring, rebounding and passing numbers together at least once as a rookie for an accomplishment that is not nearly as rare as it used to be.
Case in point: In the 2024-25 NBA regular season, 25 players recorded at least one triple-double.
That list includes 19 players who had at least two triple-doubles, 10 who had four or more, and four (Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo, LeBron and Domantas Sabonis) who had at least 10 triple-doubles.
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