Larry Johnson
Cooper Flagg Ought to Keep At Duke!!!
Revealed
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If Larry Johnson had been in Cooper Flagg‘s big Blue Satan sneakers, he tells TMZ Sports activities he’d forgo the NBA for yet another 12 months … and keep put in Durham.
Flagg, after all, is the prohibitive favourite to go on the high of this 12 months’s draft … however Johnson made it clear to us he’d prefer to see the 18-year-old hold round Duke a bit longer.
The School Basketball Corridor of Famer stated the additional 12 months of ACC ball would assist Flagg tremendously in the long term … despite the fact that he is aware of it might be troublesome for {the teenager} to postpone his professional profession one other 12 or so months.
“It is powerful to show down that cash when you recognize you are going to be No. 1,” he stated, however “to return to Duke and spend yet another 12 months, simply get them expertise collectively a bit bit extra — I feel that may be a fairly good concept.”
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Flagg’s had a heck of a season to this point with the Blue Devils — he and his teammates are enjoying for a spot within the nationwide championship later Saturday — and virtually each NBA draft pundit believes he is on the precipice of an enormous rookie season. However Johnson is aware of a factor or two about staying some time longer in faculty — he opted for yet another season at UNLV earlier than turning into the 1991 No. 1 total decide, and he says he does not remorse it in any respect.
“Heck no,” he instructed us.
Flagg will not have lengthy to decide … the draft kicks off in late June!
