The Immediate Future of Cooper Flagg and the Dallas Mavericks | Gary Parrish Show
The big national headline is after an incredible per performance in game two with the summer Mavericks, Dallas has reportedly decided to set set Cooper flag down for the rest of the summer. Uh this is not unusual with elite prospects like this. We’ve seen what we need to see. We don’t need to see Cooper flag again till the preseason, right? I’m not sure we even need to see those two games in in Las Vegas, quite honestly. actually for the Mavericks and for the league, it probably really uh set up more as a as a PR campaign, a marketing campaign to get ready for the opening of the season because this kid has been the number one prospect in his age group for quite some time. His his freshman year at Duke solidified that as well. So, we’ve seen all we needed to see about this young man. So, after these two games, you’re like, “Yeah, he’s got what we thought, so let’s set him down and get ready for the season.” But he is a remarkable talent, and it will be interesting once Kyrie Irving comes back from his knee injury. You have Oakland, healthy Anthony Davis, and maybe even a rejuvenated uh Klay Thompson. Maybe Megan the Stallion can put some new energy into him as well. And you put those four together, if you’re Dallas, uh tell me tell me if this is probably not a better combination of what you had prior to Luca leaving. I’m just saying I think if all things fall together the way they hopefully do, I think you’re in a better position. So, if you’re a Dallas fan, I think you have every reason in the world to be optimistic for this upcoming season. I am fascinated by the Maverick story because obviously nobody took more of a public beating among front office executives in American professional sports over the past year than Nico Harrison down in Dallas. But then they luck into the Cooper flag thing. And don’t ever forget they lucked into it. It was just luck but they did luck into it. And you know ACL’s are not Achilles. Kyrie Irving will be back and throw out a lineup of Kyrie Irving, Anthony Davis, a wow, here he comes. Cooper Flag, and Klay Thompson either re-energized or totally worn out by Megan the Stallion. One or the other. We’ll we’ll see. We’ll see. But that’s an interesting lineup that it’s not hard for me to imagine, you know, maybe making some noise in the playoffs. And here’s the funny part. all those people that were yelling fire Nico and still doing it, they they’ll be the first one trying to get tickets to that first game of the year, right? So, fans are funny, but to your point, yes, if if everything comes together and you look at the teams in the West, why would they not be in the mix? Why would they not be? I’m not saying they’re going to beat the Thunder and win the championship, but but they should be definitely be in the mix. Uh 100%. Again, sometimes things just sometimes things do fall in your lap, Gary. I mean, Shaq fell in the lap of the Orlando Magic. Um, Magic Johnson fell on the lap of the Lakers back in 1980, so 79. So that stuff happens and it’s just about how you once you get that break, once you get that opportunity, what do you do with it as an organization? And that’s going to be a real test for not only Nico Harrison, but everyone with that organization. Now you have Cooper Flag with these other, you know, future Hall of Fame vets. And all three of those guys will be in the Hall of Fame. We mentioned, um, what do you do with it going forward? The Gary Paris Show live weekdays at 10:00
ESPN’s Michael Eaves joins today’s episode of the Gary Parrish Show. Eaves and GP discuss the Dallas Mavericks shutting down Cooper Flagg for the remainder of the Las Vegas Summer League, Kyrie Irving’s injury recovery, and what the immediate future of this team looks like. Does Cooper Flagg make the Mavs contenders in the West?
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