Cooper Flagg walked into USA Basketball practice with nothing to lose and everything to prove. He was just about the youngest person in the building, competing against more mature and more accomplished players with far greater pedigrees. He entered the scrimmages needing to adjust to a new role in a totally new environment on the fly, all while going against the biggest, fastest, and most talented competition of his life.
Flagg immediately recognized he wasn’t going to get the ball as much as he did back home in Maine. After all, every player in the gym only had three days to leave an impression on the coaches, to
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