Cooper Flagg played through a sprained shoulder and posted the night's best fantasy line

Anyone holding Cooper Flagg on Monday had to set a lineup around a question mark. He had been hurt on a breakaway late in the second quarter of Friday's win at Indiana, when Aaron Nesmith was called for a flagrant foul, and an MRI found a mild left shoulder sprain that kept him out of Saturday's home opener against San Antonio, according to Tim MacMahon at ESPN. Dallas listed him as questionable for Monday's game in Miami and upgraded him to probable after he went through the morning shootaround, as ClutchPoints reported, citing Marc Stein.

The managers who started him were paid with the best fantasy line of the night. Flagg played 40 minutes in a 113-109 win and finished with 29 points on 12-for-23 shooting, 11 assists, six rebounds, five steals and three blocks, according to ESPN's box score, which comes to 82 fantasy points under ESPN's standard points scoring by our arithmetic, four more than anyone else on a nine-game slate. He scored 12 of his points in the fourth quarter, by ESPN's account, and the 40 minutes were his most in a game this season.

Every player in this story is on the fantasy basketball rankings and the 2026-27 projections, and the NBA depth charts show where each one stands in his team’s rotation tonight.