Cooper Flagg UNDERRATED in New Future NBA Rankings
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🗓️ 16 July 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On today's show, Bleacher Report says the Cooper Flag won't be a top five player by 2030. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome. You're still locked on to the Dallas Mavericks. Your team every day. My name is Nick Engstead. I'm joined by the One More Thinking, Isaac Harris himself. And we're going to talk about our friend Andy Bailey had an article on Bleacher Report where you put the top 30 players in the NBA by 2030. So four years for now, going into the 2030, |
| 0:22.9 | 2031 season. |
| 0:24.7 | We'll talk about who's on the list. |
| 0:26.0 | We'll talk about if another Maver can join flag on this list of the top 30 players |
| 0:31.0 | and their path to get one of those guys. |
| 0:33.5 | But first, let's start with just Cooper Flags mentioned here. |
| 0:37.4 | Victor Romanyama number one, not surprising that he would get there. Our old friend Luca Donchich, number two, he'll be 31 years old going into that season. Not surprising theirs. SGA, 32 years old going into that season. Not surprised that he's still there. But interesting. And then Yokic, number four, on the list, he'll be 35 going in that season. |
| 0:56.3 | I think he'll be lower than this. |
| 0:57.5 | I think he'll still be good, but I don't know if he'll still be a top four player in the NBA. |
| 1:02.8 | I mean, I don't think it's like that crazy, right? |
| 1:07.3 | It's not that crazy, but you're telling me that nobody nobody overtakes him he'll be |
| 1:12.1 | 35 okay so let's look at 35 year old's in a league this year looking at paul george 35 and older |
| 1:19.6 | elite athlete paul george true holiday hard and elite athlete durrant hard and athlete in his own right |
| 1:25.8 | i know but haven't we always talked about this the opposite way, though, of like, Hey, if you're an elite athlete, then when you get older, it's going to like, they're also, those guys were also super skilled. Those guys didn't rely on their athleticism. They, you know, they had the skills. I know. I'm, I'm saying not being an elite athlete's going to make his body |
| 1:44.4 | breakdown earlier. Now, okay. If you take that angle, like the health angle, then yes, then |
| 1:51.7 | as someone that is approaching that age, I can tell you that. But if we're if we're talking about like |
| 1:56.8 | skill and like what he does well out there like sure i think somebody it's pretty groundbound |
| 2:02.7 | and uh you know can can shoot and do all this stuff for it's it's pretty yeah that's that's |
| 2:10.3 | pretty i'm i'm with you that it's a little little too high i think it's like kate cutting him i think |
| 2:15.9 | is right is right underneath him, right? |
| 2:18.2 | No, it's Anthony Edwards next at five. |
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