{"id":189784,"date":"2025-09-29T12:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/189784\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:12:07","slug":"cooper-flaggs-wonderful-pre-season-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/189784\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg\u2019s Wonderful Pre-Season Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">It must be nice being Cooper Flagg. He got to go to the Rider Cup this weekend, where <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25253521-michael-jordan-cooper-flagg-link-photo-2025-ryder-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he met NBA legend Michael Jordan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he met NBA legend Michael Jordan<\/a>. And he has Jayson Tatum singing his praises too: when ESPN asked him <a href=\"https:\/\/dukewire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/duke\/mens-basketball\/2025\/09\/28\/jayson-tatum-cooper-flaggs-nba-debut\/86399492007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:what rookies he was excited to see;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">what rookies he was excited to see<\/a>, he said \u201cNumber one would have to be my man Cooper Flagg.\u201d They\u2019re both Duke guys obviously, but still, how cool is that?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One anonymous assistant expects Flagg to be a \u201ctop 25\u201d player and that \u2018[h]e\u2019ll be a borderline All-Star and the conversation will be about whether he should make it as a second-year guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Another assistant said \u201cYou don\u2019t go to Team USA [last summer] and do what he did and not have a chance [at being the best in the NBA].\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/bluehealers.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Blue Healer Auctions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Blue Healer Auctions<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/mailto:jdking@mindspring.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:Drop us a line;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drop us a line<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It must be nice being Cooper Flagg. He got to go to the Rider Cup this weekend, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[761,5488,7328,355,99],"class_list":["post-189784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-jayson-tatum","tag-michael-jordan","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}