Creating Cooper Flagg
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SI NBA
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🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Ahead of the phenom's NBA summer league debut, SI's Chris Mannix sits down with his mother, childhood coaches, NBA vet Brian Scalabrine, and Duke head coach Jon Scheyer about growing the talent from a first grader dominating the rec league to the most highly sought after prospect since LeBron James
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| 0:00.0 | For over a year, NBA executives have been anticipating the arrival of the greatest American prospects since LeBron James, Cooper Flag. |
| 0:11.2 | Cooper Flagg might be one of the best by the time he is done with his collegiate career. |
| 0:15.6 | In the draft this year, Cooper Flagg. |
| 0:17.8 | Cooper Flag is Cooper Flag. |
| 0:19.1 | Everybody wants Coop, but not everybody deserves him. |
| 0:21.6 | I love the kid. |
| 0:22.6 | I think he's the number one overall picking this upcoming draft. |
| 0:25.6 | I don't think there's any question about it. |
| 0:26.6 | When you talk about all the ways he impacts winning, to me, one word, versatility. |
| 0:30.6 | Many first heard of Flag as a teenager when he was dominating overmatched opponent in central Maine. They followed him to Florida, to Montverd Academy, |
| 0:39.5 | where as a senior, Flag starred on one of the greatest high school teams of all time, |
| 0:43.2 | and at Duke, where Flagg lived up to lofty expectations. |
| 0:47.3 | Last season's race to the bottom even had its own moniker. |
| 0:50.5 | Capture the Flag. |
| 0:51.8 | Everyone wanted to get their hands on the 6'9, 225-pound phenom, |
| 0:56.4 | who had drawn comparisons to Jason Tatum and Kauai Leonard. |
| 1:00.2 | On lottery night, we found out who would get it. |
| 1:03.6 | The second pick will be made by the San Antonio Spurs, |
| 1:08.5 | and that means that the number one pick in the 2025 NBA draft goes to |
| 1:13.2 | the Dallas Mavericks. Dallas, with a 1.4% chance of landing the top overall pick, saw its |
| 1:20.6 | ping pong ball combination come up. Months after trading a generational superstar in Luca |
| 1:25.0 | Donchich, the Mavericks would have a chance to draft another. |
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