In Dallas the N.1 of the Draft 2025 will be able to learn from champions like Davis, Thompson and Irving. In the Mavericks he will play as a small wing
“If you are the best player in your gym, then you have to look for a new gym.” Cooper Flagg, the number 1 choice of Draft 2025, cites the words of the mother, Mrs. Kelly, as a professional compass. Following this philosophy he left Nakomis High School in “his” Maine to go to high school in Montverde Academy in Florida, a school specialized in NBA prospects. So he then chose to go to Duke, college among the most prestigious in America for academic quality and value of the basketball program, but also the one who has the eyes of everyone pointed on, the one with the greatest pressure. So he then chose to leave the NCAA world after only one season. The Cameron Indoor Stadium, after the serial campaign as the best player of the nation, had become too tight, too comfortable. Away, then. NBA destination. By choice n. 1 of the draft. More than that, you can’t go up, however, now. Now he must become the strongest at the American Airlines Arena, the Dallas Mavericks house, his new team, the one who called him in front of everyone at the Brooklyn Barclays Center for the mouth of the commissioner Adam Silver, after winning the lottery, grabbing a generational prospect.
immediately competitive
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The Mavs were lucky. Thanks to him they can heal the farewell wound to Luka Doncic. Flagg can heal it, but it will take time: the Texan fans do not forgive Sgarri like this. A new era starts in Dallas who also shows off the choice n.1 of the draft in Wnba: the Wings have selected the blonde Paige Bueckers. However, he was lucky pure Flag. It does not happen to every first choice of a Draft to be able to sit in the quintet of a team with Anthony Davis and Klay Thompson alongside, more Kyrie Irving reinforcement from 2026. Cooper will be able to observe how three All Star of the recent past take care of their body, as the profession approaching. Steal with the eyes, steal the tricks of the trade. He was not waiting for anything else. It has an ethics of painstaking work, obsessive, that of those who do not satisfy themselves to be one of many, want more, beyond the money and celebrity. He wants glory, the great opponents, the adrenaline of the NBA Finals. He never satisfies himself. In Dallas they will love him madly, even more than Luka. Because it is like them, he dreams of big as you do in Texas, he is not afraid to imagine a huge future like the big spaces around the Big D. They will love him because they will see him dive, fight on the parquet as if there was no other game to play tomorrow. Cooper is like them: he wants to take everything. They will not let Nico Harrison or Chicchessia let him leave. Not after the previous one Doncic. They imagine it new Dirk Nowitzki, the happy ending together, from “and they lived happy and happy” as in fairy tales. With another Larry O’Brien Trophy to exhibit, of course. And maybe more than one, this time.
Number 32 or 33?
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He will play with the number 32 for the Mavs. It is already known, the shirts turn with its name. Yet by style it resembles a large number 33 in the history of the game, to Larry Bird. As he comes from rural, decentralized America, far from large markets. As he was exceptional to college. White wing plays as a blue collar, getting their hands dirty like those who stamp the card tag every morning, get up early and always go to work, without free days. Flagg at 2.13 last Italian night, when Silver called him on stage in New York, embraced his parents, his brother and showed up with a blue jacket and tie. Elegant, sober. As on the parquet. He made a great impression without making “the phenomenon”, as on the parquet. Without overdoing it. No carnavlate and bright clothes, no proclamations. He said he can’t wait to play for Dallas. He said he wants to win. That counts.
New role
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Of course he will have to change his role compared to Duke. Because from Blue Devil it was Final Four phenomenon playing as a great wing. Points, but also many rebounds, even the stubbles. He played for a long time, albeit modern, in attack threatens inside/outside, all -round offensive playmaker. But he often defended under the basket on real long, for centimeters and kilograms. Dallas will play as a small wing. Because there is Anthony Davis on 4. Because the MAVS have already Dereck Lively and Daniel Gafford, intended for the three -year renewal, as defensive centers, by stopping and crushed. And there is also PJ Washington from 3-4, from ductile wing, his first alternative. Flagg has improved the shot from the perimeter to Duke, he grew up as a ball negotier. It will improve again, with Jason Kidd as the coach head, one of the best men’s best men. It will take several responsibilities as a creator in the absence of Irving which will return from the injury to the crushing ligament of the left knee suffered in March at best in January 2026. Irving will renew for three years with Dallas, for 119 million (dollars) of good reasons. Flagg therefore has the “table set”. It can be competitive immediately, as a team results.
20 points
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The US media have already unleashed. Will it mark at least 20 points per game from the first NBA season? The Over/Under, which is so fashionable there, is tantalizing. Let’s not exaggerate. It will mark a lot, but not so much, from Pronti-via. Because he is not a soloist from “I do everything”. If anything, team player. Because he hears that without Irving the Mavs are not playoffs in the Western Conference, which has many ambitious teams. Flagg has already fallen into the part, be sure. From the Mavericks he will try to play the role of Tom Cruise, the top gun maverick, the man for whom there is no impossible mission. And then 20 points at a time maybe not, but Dallas to the playoffs maybe yes. Don’t go out against Flagg: he usually wins. It is soon to become the best player in the gym where he trains. At any level.
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