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No. 1 decide Cooper Flagg receives heat welcome to Dallas

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No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg receives warm welcome to Dallas

The Dallas Mavericks made the inevitable a actuality on Wednesday by choosing Duke star Cooper Flagg with the No. 1 decide within the 2025 NBA draft.

Flagg is eighteen years and 186 days outdated, making him the second-youngest No. 1 decide in NBA draft historical past, behind LeBron James (18 years, 178 days outdated) in 2003, in response to ESPN Analysis. He averaged 19.2 factors, 7.5 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.4 blocks in a single season with the Blue Devils.

The Mavericks are the fourth group within the fashionable draft period (since 1966) to pick out the No. 1 decide within the NBA draft inside a 12 months of reaching the NBA Finals — that they had a 1.8% likelihood of profitable the lottery and jumped 10 spots to safe the highest decide.

Flagg joins a Dallas group that features NBA champions Kyrie Irving, who suffered a torn ACL in March, and Anthony Davis alongside Klay Thompson, P.J. Washington and Dereck Energetic II.

He acquired a heat welcome to the Lone Star state as native groups praised the Mavericks’ youngest star.

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