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YouTube Gold: Cooper Flagg is Off The Charts

Basketball, more than any other sport, finds guys who come up off the beaten path or in surprising ways. Larry Bird was from French Lick, Indiana. Jerry West from Cabin Creek, West Virginia. Bryant Reeves was from Gans, Oklahoma, population 312. Trajan Langdon came out of Anchorage, Alaska.

We may have another guy like that coming along.

Cooper Flagg, who has called Duke his “dream school,” is from Newport, Maine.

Generally speaking, you don’t see a whole lot of great prospects from Maine. It’s the most rural state in the country, according to Wikipedia. Not sure how anyone beats Alaska there, but okay.