Cooper Flagg was perhaps the conversation of the NBA when he came from the university and was generally number 1 taken by the Mavericks in the June design, but since then things have been very quiet about the Duke product and NBA analyst Marc Spears wanted to know why.
Spears wondered where the hype for Flagg was, with the season approaching quickly during the Monday edition of “NBA Today”.
“Why is it so quiet about this guy?” Early Spears. “Where is the Choo Choo, the Cooper Flagg train. I don’t get it. NBA, what are you doing? Why don’t you promote this man last year I saw him training in Vegas and he was in a select team with Brandon Miller and Trey Murphy and Jalen Suggs … and one of the coaches told me the best player.
“I mean, he was 17 years old at the time. He doesn’t even turn 19 until Christmas. Go on the train, this guy becomes a star. He should be in all promotions, I don’t see him.”
Spears had one last thought on Flagg before he completed his thought.
“Don’t sleep on this child,” he said.
Flagg comes from a sample year at Duke for some season with the program-where he had an average of 19.2 points per match at 48.1 percent shooting from the field and 38.5 percent shoot from 3-point reach.
He ended his first year winning AP player of the year, the Naismith Award and the US Basketball Writers Association Player of the Year.
All of this led to Flagg being the first to be chosen by the Mavericks.
Flagg appeared against the Thunder in his first pre -season match on Monday evening.
The 18-year-old had 10 points in 14 minutes on the floor, shoots 3-out-6 out of the field and hit two of his three shots from 3-point range.
Flagg also had six rebounds, three assists and a block.
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