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4.7 • 909 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Is Cooper Flagg a top 30 NBA player? The Dallas Mavericks' star rookie made a huge impression, but how high could he rank alongside players like Kyrie Irving and more? Nick Angstadt and Isaac Harris revisit the Locked On Top 100 rankings from the start of the season and debate where Cooper Flagg and other key players now rank after a full year of NBA action.

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0:00.0	On today's show, now that it's all said and done, I think it's pretty clear. Cooper Flag is easily a top 30 player in the NBA. This is Cooper Flagg, and you're listening to Lockdown Mall. So all of them, all of five. I think that's a good question. Good morning, Isaac. All these changes. You know, I still got my dog Dwight Powell. You are a Locked on Mads. Your daily Dallas Mavericks podcast. No one's that.
0:22.6	Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network. You are locked on Mads, your daily Dallas Mavericks podcast.
0:22.0	It's part of the Locked On Podcast Network.
0:25.6	Your team every day.
0:29.6	And welcome.
0:30.5	You're locked on the Dallas Mavericks.
0:31.5	Your team every day.
0:32.3	My name is Nick Engstead.
0:33.2	Joining me, as always, my co-host, the top 100 wonder.
0:36.6	The one more thinking, what you got for me
0:37.8	isaac Harris um it's tough times on palo island we're taking on water um the damage is
0:46.7	resale value is not great right now you just kind of just got to just hold and hopefully
0:53.9	the storm and hurricane will pass.
0:56.9	The Maxi Mansion has added another floor. I like Maxi a lot. I was I was pro
1:02.3	Bancaro early, early on going into that draft and I've been holding out hope, but I hate that
1:09.6	magic team, man. It's tough. It's tough. Today's episode, we want to talk about the top 100 players we did at the beginning of the season. How much does it winning impact player rank? And what does that mean for Cooper Flag going forward? How does he rise up this list? How many players could actually move up in the playoffs? We'll talk about some of the guys that are actually in it because I think there are some interesting risers. But let's start here because when last we saw Cooper Flag in the Lockdown Top 100,
1:32.3	I was fighting, fighting with many locked on hosts that refused to rank him in the Top 100.
1:40.3	Even though I knew, hey, really, you're going to put Anthony Simons ahead of him?
1:44.8	Really?
1:45.7	We're going to, really?
2:01.0	We're going to put Yacopold ahead of him? Really? You're going to put Peyton Pritchard ahead of him? Really? We're going to put Emmanuel quickly. Josh Hart. DeAndre Hunter, Bradley Beal is on this list. Really? Aaron Neesmith? Really? Cooper flag is not going to be better than Aaron Neesmith going into this season? And yet many of them said that they aren't going to rank him. A lot of them did.
2:04.4	And we ranked Cooper Flag at 80. We as in the locked on.
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