The NBA had a premonition Cooper Flagg was bound for future superstardom long before he put on a Duke jersey. It was the NBA’s interest that convinced Flagg to reclassify, essentially skipping his senior year of high school to enroll in college at just 17 years old. It was at the NBA’s behest that he arrived at USA Basketball training camp this past summer, where he famously out-played some of the best players in the world in scrimmages ahead of the Paris Olympics.
Flagg was preordained as the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft before he ever stepped onto campus, but that was just the tip of
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