Brian Lewis went down to Tobacco Road in North Carolina this week to get a look at the man teams want so bad that they’ve set out to tank their whole season: Cooper Flagg, barely 18 years old and as close to a sure thing as there has been in a while.
“It looks like we’ve finally got a No. 1 pick who’s actually a real No. 1 pick,” a Western Conference scout familiar with the 6’9”, 205-pound Flagg told Lewis.
And as so many reporters have learned on visiting Duke, Flagg is more than his stats, impressive as they may be at 19.