December 1, 2025 • 6 mins
What does it take for a rookie to rewrite NBA history before Christmas?In this episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray break down a wild weekend in hoops and share some jaw-dropping stories you won’t believe:
- Cooper Flagg’s meteoric rise: The youngest player ever to notch 10 assists in a game—and then drops 35 points the next night. How does he compare to LeBron at this stage? The crew dives deep into what makes this kid unstoppable and why his clutch performances are accelerating his growth.
- Anthony Davis returns: The guys debate what AD’s comeback means for the Mavericks, why his minute restriction matters, and whether salary gymnastics could derail mid-season trade rumors.
- Mavs injury chaos: From Derek Lively’s concerning foot issues to PJ Washington’s freak accident—slipping on a basketball during warmups—the team laments the worst luck in the league.
- NBA gossip alert: Are the Chicago Bulls sniffing around for a blockbuster move? The whispers are getting louder, and the hosts tease what could be brewing behind the scenes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one. The Eagle
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she's gone on to bigger and better things. We'll tell
you what she's doing on the national stage. But I
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to you by our friends Frankel and frankel Man. Those
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Speaker 2 (01:04):
This mountains cool around the sports. K T Queints has
all the sports. Yeah, so Friday night was MAVs and
Lakers in La. Ben was there. We'll get some Ben
stories from his trip to La tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You missed it because you were David burning Well, yeah,
but David Byrne was over at ten o'clock.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Oh okay, you saw some of it. Oh yeah, I
was home for the second half. I thought it was
a great game. Uh it was. It was. And then
third quarter.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
If the Lakers don't just go unconscious and make every
shot they shoot, then the MAVs have a chance to
really win that game.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
If the Lakers are hitting half their threes, you're cooked.
I mean, yeah, that's such a good offensive. What are
you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Luca had what do you have? Thirty five points in
that game? Yeah, it was Austin Reeves, your guy with
thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
You guys, are you guys are realizing now what I
was doing last year with Austin Reeves? Right?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I mean he is an offensive machine.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Nobody can stay in front of him, and it's just
it's all I mean, it's not like he's a bad athlete,
but it's just all skill and the fact that they
have him and Luca together, Austin Reeves never has to
worry about getting the other team's best defender on him.
So think about being that good offensively and you're getting
the second best defender on you. Incredible, They got it.
(02:22):
They can't cover anybody, but man, they got an offensive fireworks.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
In that game.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Friday night, Cooper Flag became the youngest player ever to
record tenn assist in the game. He's right, then you
gotta do it again Saturday night playing the Clippers, and
I saw the probably fourth quarter of this game. I
didn't get all of this. So fourth quarter of this game,
Klay Thompson went nuts. And then Cooper Flag, with his
thirty five points, became the second youngest player to score
thirty points, behind one Lebron James, and.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
The youngest player to ever score thirty five.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
The youngest to score thirty five, second youngest to score
thirty Yes, is that incredible?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah? And it was?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And so you know the big Mab story from the
weekend is the return of Anthony Davis. So he played
Friday night and I thought he played really well. I
thought that was the best he had looked in any game,
because he looks to be in shape now and you
could see immediately the impact he has on the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
He's on a minute restriction. I think you played twenty
eight minutes. Does that sound right? Twenty eight minutes? But
he just and then kid.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Is mostly going to be playing him at center, and
that'll change the dynamic of the offense.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
We get some Derek Clavely concerns.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, I don't feel good about that, But I'm worried
that he's stress fracturing.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
The bone spur thing.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That's when you get big guys that have those kind
of bone foot issues feet and ankle and all that stuff.
It has a tendency to not go well long.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Term because that's a lot of body you got to
support with your feet.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
With your skinny little feet. So I'm worried I'd be
lying of us that I wasn't. So PJ. Washington got
hurt by a he slipped on a basketball. Did you
see it? No? I did you see this? No?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It literally happened as the buzzer was going off before
the national anthem, you know how they're all out there shooting.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
He went up for a little lamp. There's ten guys.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Shooting at once, and he lands on a basketball bouncing
on the ground in his ankle.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Turns. He's out tonight too.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
That's literally the equivalent of like the baseball players just
messing around in the outfield before the game duringk bating
practice and gets hit by a line drive.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It absolutely what are we doing? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And it was like if you see the footage of it,
it's not anybody's fault.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
No, it's just anything can go wrong with.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And the Mavericks have just, I mean just the worst
luck ever, worst luck ever. No Gafford tonight, No PJ.
Washington Junior tonight, about Anthony Davis tonight they got Anthony
Davis and he got Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You got Cooper fuck which you know what, can I
just say?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
This ball in his hands, he knows where he wants
to go.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
We're already there with him.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
He can't really get stopped until like, if he knows
where he's going, you kind of can't stop him.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
He's figuring it out.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Think about how crazy this is sixteen of his first
twenty one games as a pro. Sixteen of his first
twenty one games as a pro has been in the clutch.
That the clutch is defined as within five in the
final five minutes that's defined, so basically, he's every game
he's played in for the most part, has been a
(05:33):
close game where he's had to make decisions ye at
the end of a game to win or lose it.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
That's going to expedite his growth.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And this is why it's like, I'm not mad at
anybody or have your own thoughts about tanking. I just
think that the Mavericks are going to be by the
time we get to January and February. I just think
we're I think we're gonna Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Is gonna be really good. Ad will be really good.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Don't think we're gonna be able to trade Anthony Davis
mid season because of all the salary gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
So what are you gonna do.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You're just gonna not play Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving
and they're gonna be healthy guys sitting on the bench.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Today's not the time. But Ben's here tomorrow, and I
think it is a conversation for him. You know, there
are whispers and rumors of the Chicago Bulls looking into him,
which have been a constant team for him. So I
do think there's a little smoke that we should be tracking.
But we'll get into that tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
We will get into that tomorrow, all right, Ben and
Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle Coming up next.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
A local news anchor hit the big time. Who is it?
We'll give you the details here on the
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one. The Eagle
coming up at the bottom of the hour in the
weekly weekday update, a local news anchor has left and
she's gone on to bigger and better things. We'll tell
you what she's doing on the national stage. But I
want to go ahead and give away those bad Omens
tickets right now in a segment right here that's brought
to you by our friends Frankel and frankel Man. Those
(00:23):
guys have been doing this for over thirty years. What
is this helping out people who get injured in a
wrecker on the job site. You need an advocate, you
need someone fighting for you. That's Franklin Frankel at two one, four, three, three,
three thirty three thirty three. And since they're sponsoring this segment,
Franklin Frankel want you to have bad Omens tickets too.
So the first person using their iHeart app the talkback feature,
(00:43):
leave your name, your phone number, your email address, and
answer the question what famous celebrity did we talk about?
In the second segment at three fifteen, there's a new
documentary about him on Netflix. We talked about him. He's
an actor, a comedian, a legend, the first person that
can tell us who that was that we were talking about, name,
phone number, email address. You're gonna win those bad Omens tickets.
But right now it's time for.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
This mountains cool around the sports. K T Queints has
all the sports. Yeah, so Friday night was MAVs and
Lakers in La. Ben was there. We'll get some Ben
stories from his trip to La tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You missed it because you were David burning Well, yeah,
but David Byrne was over at ten o'clock.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Oh okay, you saw some of it. Oh yeah, I
was home for the second half. I thought it was
a great game. Uh it was. It was. And then
third quarter.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
If the Lakers don't just go unconscious and make every
shot they shoot, then the MAVs have a chance to
really win that game.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
If the Lakers are hitting half their threes, you're cooked.
I mean, yeah, that's such a good offensive. What are
you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Luca had what do you have? Thirty five points in
that game? Yeah, it was Austin Reeves, your guy with
thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
You guys, are you guys are realizing now what I
was doing last year with Austin Reeves? Right?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I mean he is an offensive machine.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Nobody can stay in front of him, and it's just
it's all I mean, it's not like he's a bad athlete,
but it's just all skill and the fact that they
have him and Luca together, Austin Reeves never has to
worry about getting the other team's best defender on him.
So think about being that good offensively and you're getting
the second best defender on you. Incredible, They got it.
(02:22):
They can't cover anybody, but man, they got an offensive fireworks.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
In that game.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Friday night, Cooper Flag became the youngest player ever to
record tenn assist in the game. He's right, then you
gotta do it again Saturday night playing the Clippers, and
I saw the probably fourth quarter of this game. I
didn't get all of this. So fourth quarter of this game,
Klay Thompson went nuts. And then Cooper Flag, with his
thirty five points, became the second youngest player to score
thirty points, behind one Lebron James, and.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
The youngest player to ever score thirty five.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
The youngest to score thirty five, second youngest to score
thirty Yes, is that incredible?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah? And it was?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And so you know the big Mab story from the
weekend is the return of Anthony Davis. So he played
Friday night and I thought he played really well. I
thought that was the best he had looked in any game,
because he looks to be in shape now and you
could see immediately the impact he has on the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
He's on a minute restriction. I think you played twenty
eight minutes. Does that sound right? Twenty eight minutes? But
he just and then kid.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Is mostly going to be playing him at center, and
that'll change the dynamic of the offense.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
We get some Derek Clavely concerns.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, I don't feel good about that, But I'm worried
that he's stress fracturing.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
The bone spur thing.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That's when you get big guys that have those kind
of bone foot issues feet and ankle and all that stuff.
It has a tendency to not go well long.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Term because that's a lot of body you got to
support with your feet.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
With your skinny little feet. So I'm worried I'd be
lying of us that I wasn't. So PJ. Washington got
hurt by a he slipped on a basketball. Did you
see it? No? I did you see this? No?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It literally happened as the buzzer was going off before
the national anthem, you know how they're all out there shooting.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
He went up for a little lamp. There's ten guys.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Shooting at once, and he lands on a basketball bouncing
on the ground in his ankle.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Turns. He's out tonight too.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
That's literally the equivalent of like the baseball players just
messing around in the outfield before the game duringk bating
practice and gets hit by a line drive.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It absolutely what are we doing? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And it was like if you see the footage of it,
it's not anybody's fault.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
No, it's just anything can go wrong with.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And the Mavericks have just, I mean just the worst
luck ever, worst luck ever. No Gafford tonight, No PJ.
Washington Junior tonight, about Anthony Davis tonight they got Anthony
Davis and he got Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You got Cooper fuck which you know what, can I
just say?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
This ball in his hands, he knows where he wants
to go.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
We're already there with him.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
He can't really get stopped until like, if he knows
where he's going, you kind of can't stop him.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
He's figuring it out.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Think about how crazy this is sixteen of his first
twenty one games as a pro. Sixteen of his first
twenty one games as a pro has been in the clutch.
That the clutch is defined as within five in the
final five minutes that's defined, so basically, he's every game
he's played in for the most part, has been a
(05:33):
close game where he's had to make decisions ye at
the end of a game to win or lose it.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
That's going to expedite his growth.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And this is why it's like, I'm not mad at
anybody or have your own thoughts about tanking. I just
think that the Mavericks are going to be by the
time we get to January and February. I just think
we're I think we're gonna Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Is gonna be really good. Ad will be really good.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Don't think we're gonna be able to trade Anthony Davis
mid season because of all the salary gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
So what are you gonna do.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You're just gonna not play Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving
and they're gonna be healthy guys sitting on the bench.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Today's not the time. But Ben's here tomorrow, and I
think it is a conversation for him. You know, there
are whispers and rumors of the Chicago Bulls looking into him,
which have been a constant team for him. So I
do think there's a little smoke that we should be tracking.
But we'll get into that tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
We will get into that tomorrow, all right, Ben and
Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle Coming up next.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
A local news anchor hit the big time. Who is it?
We'll give you the details here on the
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