With the 2025 NBA Draft quickly approaching, the Dallas Mavericks have reportedly scheduled a private visit for Cooper Flagg, the reigning CBS Sports National Player of the Year.
The date is June 17.
That’s a week from Tuesday.
Unless Flagg cracks a beer, eats unhealthy or otherwise irritates Dallas general manager Nico Harrison (like Luka Doncic apparently did before being traded to the Lakers), that meeting should solidify Flagg as the No. 1 overall pick.
Nothing else makes sense.
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Is Flagg guaranteed to emerge as the best player from this draft? Of course not. Greg Oden was supposed to be the best player from the 2007 NBA Draft — but he wasn’t. Blake Griffin was supposed to be the best player from the 2009 NBA Draft — but he wasn’t. Nothing is ever guaranteed when it comes to this stuff.
But that doesn’t mean there’s never an obvious thing to do — and, in this draft, the obvious thing to do with the first pick is select Flagg, build your franchise around him and hope he does what he’s been doing his entire life, which is size up everybody’s expectations and then meet them like special talents tend to do.
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