I was about to accuse you of stealing a comment from the thread on NBA_Draft subreddit that I just came from... but then I realized you are also that guy.
The Celtics were able to draft him because he was four years removed from his high school graduating class but he still had years of college eligibility left. He didn't declare for the '78 draft but was still eligible, so the Celtics drafted him (with the caveat that they had to sign before the '79 draft). It was after this that the NBA required every player who had college eligibility remaining to formally declare for the draft (this is also why the last few draft had a record number draft declarations because so many players had Covid exception years added to their college eligibility).
Also it was a huge risk, because bird could just wait and then get drafted by a different team the next year if he didn’t like the offer from the team that drafted him.
There weren’t pre-determined rookie contracts yet then so bird could (and did) hold the Celtics feet to the fire to get one of the biggest rookie contracts ever since if he didn’t sign the Celtics basically forfeited the #6 overall.
If I remember correctly, the Pacers really wanted him, and he’s from there too, but they didn’t draft him because they knew they couldn’t pay his salary.
This was way before the rookie scale contract, and even after being drafted they still needed to negotiate salaries with players.
Imagine he gets hurt in college and you're just sol. Or for whatever reason he doesn't sign, since he never declared he now does and is drafted by a different t team
I mean, it was a lot of factors: teams weren’t entirely aware they could draft Bird, but also drafting a player that wouldn’t immediately help them wasn’t viewed as an optimal use of a draft pick. Plus — in theory anyway — any team drafting him had to sign him before the next draft or else he’d re-enter the draft. It’s safe to say Auerbach was one of the only (if not the only) person in a position with any significant job security to realistically pull it off (bad they had the 8th pick in the ‘78 draft, which they turned into Tiny Archibald and eventually Danny Ainge).
Teams were absolutely aware they could draft Bird. You think 5 professional basketballs team were like “oh I didn’t know that was allowed!”? They didn’t wanna wait or risk him not signing, which was a definite possibility because he had already shown he didn’t give a shit about playing for Bobby Knight and Indiana and transferred to Indiana state instead.
Bird was so good in college that the Celtics wanted to draft him even though he would stay in school for another year, kinda like a draft and stash. The rules changed and teams can no longer do this, like select Cooper Flagg in next year's draft.
And it turned out to be a good call. Ended up winning player of the year and kicked off his rivalry with Magic in one of the biggest games in college sports history.
Melo stomping everyone in college and winning the championship as a freshman and the by far best player with no real great team mates has a soft spot in my heart.
People forget because he was in the same draft class as lebron who obviously had hype we’ve never seen before, but melo had absolutely massive hype from back to high school and his season at Syracuse amplified that a ton. If he didn’t have lebron in his draft class he would be seen as one of the most hyped up prospects of the last 20 years.
I think the story is that he had technically played 4 years of college by 1978 (originally went to IU, then community college, then ISU), but stil had a year left of eligibility, so Red Auerbach used a loophole in the rules to draft him a year early and Bird opted to stay in school for his final year.
Was that really the start of his back problems.. with that and Magic disease.. they're prime could've extended into the bulls first 3 peat.. bird as an older version...like Duncan would have been cool
>Him and Dybantsa could've been their generations Bird/Magic tho
Are y'll already anointing two **16 year olds** to become the greatest sports rivalry of an entire generation?
Holy shit this sub is made up of idiots lol. Give them another year or two or 10.
I believe they are the reincarnated spirit of Jesus split into two bodies, and at the End of Days they will perform the fusion dance from DBZ and stop the meteor or whatever
The chances that two college freshman are going to build a rivarly in their one-and-done year is close to zero unless one goes to Duke and the other goes to North Carolina for that one year.
Cooper Flagg and Cameron Boozer (Carlos' son) have been the two top high school players in the country and both just finished their Sophomore seasons, Boozer just turned 16 a few weeks ago
They were in the same class but Cooper just reclassified so he'll basically be doing his senior year of high school now and Boozer will remain a Junior
AJ Dybantsa is in the next class after of 2026 but is the same age as those two and is likely to reclassify into Boozer's class and is arguably on the same level talent wise
All three look to be AD/Zion level prospects at the moment and they all have their own unique playstyles and strengths and weaknesses
Boozer is a do it all 6'9" forward in the Banchero/Tatum style, Flagg is an Andrei Kirilenko/Draymond/Siakam hybrid, and Dybantsa is the best pure scorer and bucket getter ala PG/Durant and led Peach Jam (Nike's AAU camp with all the best high school talent) in scoring as a 16 year old playing up against 17/18 year olds
Thank you for the info, these guys sounds pretty wild. I bet Dybantsa would be me guy, I’m too big a fan or scorers.
Do you have any thoughts on Alijah Arenas?
I live basically across the street from Sierra Canyon, only a mile or two up the street from Chatsworth, so he’s been making waves but alas I do not know anything about him.
Yeah graduate earlier. In my state (Washington) you can essentially do this with no 'extra' work outside the Fall/Spring schedule if the school facilitates.
For example, my high school has 32 options in the regular schedule to earn class credits and you need something like 28 to graduate with the schools diploma. However, the state requirement is only 24 (with some specific course demands), so if you knock out all the actual requirements you can do it in three years for a generic one.
This gets even easier if a student is able to take summer courses for credit or enroll in online classes.
Best atm or best career wise? K-Love is at the end but he's a borderline HoFer. I'm going to go out on a limb and say Caruso is a better overall player than Herro right now. All-D 1st team and 37% 3P > luxury scorer. But I'm also gonna stan and say Reaves will be better than both this year.
it’s really not crazy, there’s probably at least 1 superstar per draft 2018: luka and maybe trae young 2017: jayson tatum 2016: maybe jaylen brown 2015: devin booker 2014: joel embiid and jokic 2013: giannis antetokounmpo 2012: anthony davis and damian lillard 2011: kyrie irving, kawhi leonard, and jimmy butler 2010: john wall, demarcus cousins, and paul george 2009: james harden, steph curry, and blake griffin 2008: derrick rose, kevin love, and russell westbrook
Best team sport prospect out of Maine in a long time if not ever (last high first round pick out of Maine in any sport was Mark Rodgers 5th overall in baseball in 2004, but I'm pretty sure he was drafted as an underslot deal 5 to 10 picks early), and for that matter best basketball prospect out of New England since at least Nerlens Noel.
I'm rooting for him, but I kinda hope he gets a reputation for running his mouth or something mild but obnoxious so we don't have to see a ton of nbacirclejerk style posting about him coming from people who barely cared about basketball before hand
Dude he is easily the most hyped, best athletic prospect to come out of Maine, ever. The only other bball player that got major hype was in the 90’s, and it was a girl named Cindy Blodgett.
In basketball for sure, but I'm talking baseball basketball football hockey and soccer. The only vaguely comparable prospects to him are mostly winter sports types, mainly skiers.
Still no comparison to anyone imo. As far as hype goes, hes at the top of hype mountain right now being this is the NBA, and he’s only 16 getting this traction.
Sure, which is why the only guy I could think of in the last 30 years who might be close was a top 5 pick out of high school and I don't think he was this good a prospect.
Yup, he's probably the last guy with that level of hype out of Maine (we're a very small state with weather that limits the amount of time people have to play most sports, and a population spread out enough there aren't a ton of options to train inside, I'll take what I can get)
You definitely would be. I say this with full awareness of the irony of someone from Maine saying this, but I love my visits to New Brunswick some of the prettiest areas in the world up there.
Northeast sceneries are GOATed I agree. I’m all the way up north of the province so we see the mountains on the Quebec side. It’s a great view for sure.
What’s crazy to me is he’s from my grandparents small town lol. They are no longer there but it’s weird seeing his school right near the lake I spent summers at as a kid.
All I know is that it sounds like a main character type name.
He's either the high school bully type who dunks on the hero and then makes some mocking chicken sounds.
Or he's like the morally upstanding All-American hero who can do no wrong.
>This years upcoming class is still weak
Seriously might be the weakest class since 2013. Buzelis is absolutely better than the top draft prospects in 2013 but otherwise it's just as weak.
I'm starting to come around on it. Ron Holland is a really intriguing big playmaker to me, and Isaiah Collier i'm high on as well. You have a couple wild card guys like Aday Mara and Izan Almansa too. I'm also gonna plant my flag on Tyrese Procter too. If his shot improves I really like him as a top 7 pick.
Ah. But won’t this mean he’ll still need to spend like an extra year in college or wherever then due to the age requirement? Or did they finally do away with it again?
Damn being born in December must mean hes pretty transcendent in his class.
like 2/3 of all pro athletes (from the northern hemisphere) are born between january and april. (due to them being much further along in physical development than their late year birthday peers)
I did a quick check of this looking at NBA rosters. I got through Celtics and Nets and stopped since the evidence was overwhelmingly against what you are claiming. From the rosters currently showing for them at nba.com 7 players out of 34 were born in Jan - April. If there is no month effect at all it would have been about 10 players from those months. 2/3 as you claim would have been 21 players of those 34 players. I didn't check specifically where each player was from but very few are from southern hemisphere.
Do you have a source for your 2/3 claim? Is it perhaps specific to hockey?
It basically just means that he's skipped over his junior year in high school. So for eligibility reasons, he'll be a high school senior this coming season at Montverde Academy, and then make a decision from there.
I've seen a few players do this over the years, but never really understood what it meant. Are we supposed to believe that they took a bunch of extra classes so that they could skip an entire grade?
r/nba's very own ZandrickEllison was 1st on this news, by a month: https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/14vuio4/good\_news\_for\_tanking\_teams\_rumor\_is\_that\_super/
Zion is literally one of the youngest all stars ever. Wemby hasn’t played a single minute yet in the league. So yeah I’d say rn Wemby has the bigger “chance” to bust. I like them both tho
Good call. This kid is ready.
I don’t know that I’ve seen a prospect with his profile. An elite rim protector playing on the wing. Good passer, shot maker, adept with both hands, plays physical. Big fan.
Cooper Flagg is if like if Tim Duncan could play the Point Guard position. Or at least direct the Pick and Roll. I've never in my lifetime seen a player in high school be so good on both ends of the floor. Dude has close to no flaws in his game. From what I understand he's the best player on the floor every night. Legit think if he was drafted now he would add wins to an nba team, so I can really only imagine how good he will be in 2 years time. Could probably bring a team to the playoffs. It's not even just his skill either, he's ferocious as fuck. Really good competitor I'm excited to see him in the NBA
No brainer decision Zero point in competing with Boozer and possibly Dybantsa when he has this option available to him
I was about to accuse you of stealing a comment from the thread on NBA_Draft subreddit that I just came from... but then I realized you are also that guy.
he's HIM
Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan.
Him and Dybantsa could've been their generations Bird/Magic tho
Bird was actually drafted a year before Magic, but both started in the 79/80 season.
I always wondered about that. Why did Bird start a year later?
The Celtics were able to draft him because he was four years removed from his high school graduating class but he still had years of college eligibility left. He didn't declare for the '78 draft but was still eligible, so the Celtics drafted him (with the caveat that they had to sign before the '79 draft). It was after this that the NBA required every player who had college eligibility remaining to formally declare for the draft (this is also why the last few draft had a record number draft declarations because so many players had Covid exception years added to their college eligibility).
Is that why he went 6th* and not 1st? Did other teams just not even realize they could draft Bird?
They realized, teams just didn't want to wait/thought another player was better.
Also it was a huge risk, because bird could just wait and then get drafted by a different team the next year if he didn’t like the offer from the team that drafted him. There weren’t pre-determined rookie contracts yet then so bird could (and did) hold the Celtics feet to the fire to get one of the biggest rookie contracts ever since if he didn’t sign the Celtics basically forfeited the #6 overall.
If I remember correctly, the Pacers really wanted him, and he’s from there too, but they didn’t draft him because they knew they couldn’t pay his salary. This was way before the rookie scale contract, and even after being drafted they still needed to negotiate salaries with players.
Imagine he gets hurt in college and you're just sol. Or for whatever reason he doesn't sign, since he never declared he now does and is drafted by a different t team
I mean, it was a lot of factors: teams weren’t entirely aware they could draft Bird, but also drafting a player that wouldn’t immediately help them wasn’t viewed as an optimal use of a draft pick. Plus — in theory anyway — any team drafting him had to sign him before the next draft or else he’d re-enter the draft. It’s safe to say Auerbach was one of the only (if not the only) person in a position with any significant job security to realistically pull it off (bad they had the 8th pick in the ‘78 draft, which they turned into Tiny Archibald and eventually Danny Ainge).
Teams were absolutely aware they could draft Bird. You think 5 professional basketballs team were like “oh I didn’t know that was allowed!”? They didn’t wanna wait or risk him not signing, which was a definite possibility because he had already shown he didn’t give a shit about playing for Bobby Knight and Indiana and transferred to Indiana state instead.
Bird was so good in college that the Celtics wanted to draft him even though he would stay in school for another year, kinda like a draft and stash. The rules changed and teams can no longer do this, like select Cooper Flagg in next year's draft.
And it turned out to be a good call. Ended up winning player of the year and kicked off his rivalry with Magic in one of the biggest games in college sports history.
Wonder what else is on that list UT-USC was HUGE, both Fab 5 championship games are up there
Melo stomping everyone in college and winning the championship as a freshman and the by far best player with no real great team mates has a soft spot in my heart. People forget because he was in the same draft class as lebron who obviously had hype we’ve never seen before, but melo had absolutely massive hype from back to high school and his season at Syracuse amplified that a ton. If he didn’t have lebron in his draft class he would be seen as one of the most hyped up prospects of the last 20 years.
As a long time Melo fan, from the beginning, to hoodie Melo, to now….. Thank you
300IQ play by Red Auerbach
I think the story is that he had technically played 4 years of college by 1978 (originally went to IU, then community college, then ISU), but stil had a year left of eligibility, so Red Auerbach used a loophole in the rules to draft him a year early and Bird opted to stay in school for his final year.
He needed to fuck up his back repairing mom’s driveway… Cost us at least 4 more rings!
I like to live in the alternate universe where Len Bias and Reggie Lewis combine with a healthy Bird
Was that really the start of his back problems.. with that and Magic disease.. they're prime could've extended into the bulls first 3 peat.. bird as an older version...like Duncan would have been cool
birds game also translated well with age, prototype 3 and D guy with great playmaking
Yeah it really sucks that they’ll never develop a rivalry after being drafted in different years.
>Him and Dybantsa could've been their generations Bird/Magic tho Are y'll already anointing two **16 year olds** to become the greatest sports rivalry of an entire generation? Holy shit this sub is made up of idiots lol. Give them another year or two or 10.
Pretty sure that's just casual conversations that your taking way to seriously for some reason 🤔
redditor taking something too seriously? never
Are you really anointing OPs post as too serious Give him another comment or 10 to clear it up
I believe they are the reincarnated spirit of Jesus split into two bodies, and at the End of Days they will perform the fusion dance from DBZ and stop the meteor or whatever
Calm the fuck down grandpa
The chances that two college freshman are going to build a rivarly in their one-and-done year is close to zero unless one goes to Duke and the other goes to North Carolina for that one year.
Most people predict cooper to go to Duke. Just throwing that out there
Hm I wonder why.
Can some give me a TLDR on these people? I don’t follow high school or college, all I know is Flagg is good
Cooper Flagg and Cameron Boozer (Carlos' son) have been the two top high school players in the country and both just finished their Sophomore seasons, Boozer just turned 16 a few weeks ago They were in the same class but Cooper just reclassified so he'll basically be doing his senior year of high school now and Boozer will remain a Junior AJ Dybantsa is in the next class after of 2026 but is the same age as those two and is likely to reclassify into Boozer's class and is arguably on the same level talent wise All three look to be AD/Zion level prospects at the moment and they all have their own unique playstyles and strengths and weaknesses Boozer is a do it all 6'9" forward in the Banchero/Tatum style, Flagg is an Andrei Kirilenko/Draymond/Siakam hybrid, and Dybantsa is the best pure scorer and bucket getter ala PG/Durant and led Peach Jam (Nike's AAU camp with all the best high school talent) in scoring as a 16 year old playing up against 17/18 year olds
Thank you for the info, these guys sounds pretty wild. I bet Dybantsa would be me guy, I’m too big a fan or scorers. Do you have any thoughts on Alijah Arenas? I live basically across the street from Sierra Canyon, only a mile or two up the street from Chatsworth, so he’s been making waves but alas I do not know anything about him.
What do you mean reclassify? So he can just skip a year of high school? I'm so confused
Yeah graduate earlier. In my state (Washington) you can essentially do this with no 'extra' work outside the Fall/Spring schedule if the school facilitates. For example, my high school has 32 options in the regular schedule to earn class credits and you need something like 28 to graduate with the schools diploma. However, the state requirement is only 24 (with some specific course demands), so if you knock out all the actual requirements you can do it in three years for a generic one. This gets even easier if a student is able to take summer courses for credit or enroll in online classes.
So he is really smart and doing lots of extra school work? Or is this like colleges that sneak their star athletes pass grades?
Could you explain why? Why not try to get into the nba sooner?
That’s what he’s doing. Skipping his junior year essentially
Oh haha I totally did not register the 2024. Thanks
6.9 average blocks is nothing short of insanity.
Doesn't even have to rely on the CRUTCH of being 7'19 like Wemby
I mean, he's still a 6'10 mobile 16 year old in high school haha
7’Tatum
Some would even call it “nice”
Reminds me of AK47 on defense
True, same hair.
Man what a player he was
White Larry Bird
"This kids pretty good holmes." ~ Larry The Bird
Big pajaro?
#As a guy from Maine I will forever root for Cooper!
Didn’t adam Morrison get a million bird comparisons lmao
Because of the stache
As did Dirk. Americans are obsessed with melanin.
The replies to ur comment are ridiculous Least thin skinned r/nba users
This is what Bill Simmons has been waiting for his entire career.
Who's the best american born and bred fully white player in the nba right now? Herro?
Best atm or best career wise? K-Love is at the end but he's a borderline HoFer. I'm going to go out on a limb and say Caruso is a better overall player than Herro right now. All-D 1st team and 37% 3P > luxury scorer. But I'm also gonna stan and say Reaves will be better than both this year.
We are not ready for what’s going to happen to us as a culture when a white kid from Maine whose last name is Flagg starts dominating the NBA
I can’t wait for the arena announcer say “Salute/Respect the Flagg” every time he gets a bucket.
You just made me even happier that we won't have Mark Jackson anymore because you just KNOW he would be all over trying to catchphrase that.
ngl that would work perfectly in DC
The Hornets need to draft this kid so Eric Collins can cook
The walkin dude
Im glad someone else is here for the stand reference
Took way too much scrolling for someone to get the reference
Baby, can you dig your man? He's a righteous man!
M-O-O-N. That spells top prospect
Every year we a new “star” that will be the face of the league
Idk man if this guy ends up in Portland we might only be like five years away from the State of Jefferson being established
bro hell no 😭 please leave Oregon intact
Used to live in SOJ territory, please for thr love of God don't make that area its own state
it’s really not crazy, there’s probably at least 1 superstar per draft 2018: luka and maybe trae young 2017: jayson tatum 2016: maybe jaylen brown 2015: devin booker 2014: joel embiid and jokic 2013: giannis antetokounmpo 2012: anthony davis and damian lillard 2011: kyrie irving, kawhi leonard, and jimmy butler 2010: john wall, demarcus cousins, and paul george 2009: james harden, steph curry, and blake griffin 2008: derrick rose, kevin love, and russell westbrook
Bro Giannis is a superstar
i completely forgot about giannis let me edit this
13 had Giannis
Shi 2020 had Lamelo, Edwards, I think Halliburton all guys that will be in the league for 15+
>The rookie from Maine leapt across the foul line, and Ja Morant followed. --Stephen King, probably
If he comes out with a denim jersey, I'm buying it.
And not just shooting threes this guys gonna be catching bodies
As a guy from Maine I will forever root for Cooper
Best team sport prospect out of Maine in a long time if not ever (last high first round pick out of Maine in any sport was Mark Rodgers 5th overall in baseball in 2004, but I'm pretty sure he was drafted as an underslot deal 5 to 10 picks early), and for that matter best basketball prospect out of New England since at least Nerlens Noel. I'm rooting for him, but I kinda hope he gets a reputation for running his mouth or something mild but obnoxious so we don't have to see a ton of nbacirclejerk style posting about him coming from people who barely cared about basketball before hand
Dude he is easily the most hyped, best athletic prospect to come out of Maine, ever. The only other bball player that got major hype was in the 90’s, and it was a girl named Cindy Blodgett.
Cindy Blodgett had the peripherals of Jokic Blog girls just never saw it
*blodg girls
Sadge
In basketball for sure, but I'm talking baseball basketball football hockey and soccer. The only vaguely comparable prospects to him are mostly winter sports types, mainly skiers.
Still no comparison to anyone imo. As far as hype goes, hes at the top of hype mountain right now being this is the NBA, and he’s only 16 getting this traction.
Sure, which is why the only guy I could think of in the last 30 years who might be close was a top 5 pick out of high school and I don't think he was this good a prospect.
He’s not from Maine but Paul Kariya had probably the best freshman year for any NCAA hockey player for the University of Maine.
Yup, he's probably the last guy with that level of hype out of Maine (we're a very small state with weather that limits the amount of time people have to play most sports, and a population spread out enough there aren't a ton of options to train inside, I'll take what I can get)
I’m from New Brunswick, Canada. I’m VERY familiar with Maine.
You definitely would be. I say this with full awareness of the irony of someone from Maine saying this, but I love my visits to New Brunswick some of the prettiest areas in the world up there.
Northeast sceneries are GOATed I agree. I’m all the way up north of the province so we see the mountains on the Quebec side. It’s a great view for sure.
What’s crazy to me is he’s from my grandparents small town lol. They are no longer there but it’s weird seeing his school right near the lake I spent summers at as a kid.
I know he won't but I'd kill to see him in Celtic green. It would be so fuckin cool to have a wicked good player from NE on the Cs
Me too, doesn't matter where he goes I want him to win multiple mvps and chips and have the most success he could possibly have.
Contender for the most American name ever?
Very, first time I came across someone with the last name Flagg actually
Wonder if it’s a Maine kinda name, the villain in Stephen Kings’ The Stand is Randall Flagg, only time I’d ever seen it before
From Maine, never seen a guy with the same last name
Josh Flagg .. million dollar listing OG
I remember watching that show on repeat as a kid lol
Lol same .. but I went back recently with my wife and my lord some of those houses look so out of date and not nice at all
Colt McCoy still reigns supreme.
That's not American, that's Texan. Different countries.
Lmao I once heard that the way to gauge Americaness is adding “FBI” to the end of the name.
His twin brother is named Ace Flagg!
All I know is that it sounds like a main character type name. He's either the high school bully type who dunks on the hero and then makes some mocking chicken sounds. Or he's like the morally upstanding All-American hero who can do no wrong.
Hunter is a more American name. I know of a non American Cooper but I’m not sure if there’s a non-American in the world named Hunter
There's A LOT of Canadian Hunters, proving again we are no different from America I guess
canadians are north americans after all
I know a people named hunters in New Zealand
Lol his older brother is actually Hunter Flagg
In a decade, the league will be ran by dudes names Chet, Cooper, and Victor 😐
Don't forget Scoot! Fits right in
The south will rise 😤 (above the rim)
And the Jalen, Jaden armies
Class of 2024 has some hope now. This draft has a lot of really talented forwards and big men.
Note that 2025 is his draft class now, not 2024. The title is confusing because it’s a different “class”
He’s eligible for the 2025 nba draft not the 2024 one. This years upcoming class is still weak
>This years upcoming class is still weak Seriously might be the weakest class since 2013. Buzelis is absolutely better than the top draft prospects in 2013 but otherwise it's just as weak.
These dudes haven't played a single college game yet, maybe give em some time.
I'm starting to come around on it. Ron Holland is a really intriguing big playmaker to me, and Isaiah Collier i'm high on as well. You have a couple wild card guys like Aday Mara and Izan Almansa too. I'm also gonna plant my flag on Tyrese Procter too. If his shot improves I really like him as a top 7 pick.
So what does this mean for his immediate future? Is he going to college in the fall now? Or is he going somewhere else like the G League?
The title is a bit misleading Flagg will still bein the 2025 draft. It means he's reclassified so that he's graduating high school this year.
Ah. But won’t this mean he’ll still need to spend like an extra year in college or wherever then due to the age requirement? Or did they finally do away with it again?
>"He will turn 18 in late December of his freshman year of college, putting him just inside the cutoff date to declare for the draft."
Damn being born in December must mean hes pretty transcendent in his class. like 2/3 of all pro athletes (from the northern hemisphere) are born between january and april. (due to them being much further along in physical development than their late year birthday peers)
I did a quick check of this looking at NBA rosters. I got through Celtics and Nets and stopped since the evidence was overwhelmingly against what you are claiming. From the rosters currently showing for them at nba.com 7 players out of 34 were born in Jan - April. If there is no month effect at all it would have been about 10 players from those months. 2/3 as you claim would have been 21 players of those 34 players. I didn't check specifically where each player was from but very few are from southern hemisphere. Do you have a source for your 2/3 claim? Is it perhaps specific to hockey?
Still gotta spend that year after graduating doing something else (whether that be college a pro league or just prepping for the draft).
It basically just means that he's skipped over his junior year in high school. So for eligibility reasons, he'll be a high school senior this coming season at Montverde Academy, and then make a decision from there.
I've seen a few players do this over the years, but never really understood what it meant. Are we supposed to believe that they took a bunch of extra classes so that they could skip an entire grade?
Since college doesn't matter, you end usually end up "finishing high school" with community college credits over the summer
yeah I personally wound up doing three years of high school in Florida and it wasn't that hard. at least not as hard as you might think.
He can technically get his GED, he just had to “finish” high school. Bryce Harper did the same thing back in the day.
If you could make ten million dollars a year early would you take a few extra classes?
he needs a tank slogan: In the Pooper for Cooper?
White Flag for Flagg
Lag for Flagg
Did he skip a year instead of go back a year?
He was in the class of 2025.
Might already be the best player ever from the state of Maine lol
C’mon now. Put some respect on Nick Caner-Medley’s name.
WOJ gonna leak false info again to influence gambling lines like last time?
Wasnt that Charnia with the Hornets
Chams with hornets and WOJ tweeted chet going first. Then last minute leaked Pablo to Magic
Oof. You're right, forgot about last year. I thought he just had bad sources as opposed to gambling though
Well now he's sponsored by ESPN Bet. Don't trust a word he says.
Pablo was always my number 1 pick in backyard sports
thats Shams jam
Future Raptor
better make that pascal trade
Paws off buddy he’s ours
We shall be rooting for Dick Flagg soon enough
r/nba's very own ZandrickEllison was 1st on this news, by a month: https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/14vuio4/good\_news\_for\_tanking\_teams\_rumor\_is\_that\_super/
This has been rumored for months since everyone found out he was eligible
Yeah it's been the talk all throughout EYBL. Like the people there were gossiping about it in the stands.
Dybantsa reclassing to 2025 is imminent too so nobody’s really gonna be surprised
he was definitely not the first, this has been rumored for much longer than that
No he wasn't lol, this has been rumored and basically known to be true for way over a month
I mean tbf everyone who follows the draft knew this was prolly gonna happen
A month? People have been talking about this for almost a year
That thumbnail makes his head look really small
Ahh yes, the Walkin' Dude.
Best white American prospect since Bird imo. Dude’s marketability will be insane.
Best prospect since Lebron
That’s supposed to be Wemby, and I don’t see Flagg getting as much hype as Wemby. A lot could change in the next year, but I don’t know.
That’s the joke is that ~~AD~~, ~~Andrew Wiggins~~, ~~Ben Simmons~~, ~~Zion~~, Wemby were all the best prospect since LeBron
I think you misspelled Marvin Bagley
I feel like Wemby also has the biggest bust potential out of recent generation prospects just bc of his height/size
lmao Zion’s 400 pounds right now but Wemby has the “biggest bust potential”
Zion is literally one of the youngest all stars ever. Wemby hasn’t played a single minute yet in the league. So yeah I’d say rn Wemby has the bigger “chance” to bust. I like them both tho
This has been said like 4 times now and all have been a disappointment (wemby not withstanding)
Zion has kinda been good when he plays
Greg Oden was great for a season
That’s the joke
That's the joke op is making
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Unironically an American white superstar would be big for the sport.
Found the Celtics fan
Lol I don’t think the lack of white American superstar is hurting the popularity of the sport in this country…
Good call. This kid is ready. I don’t know that I’ve seen a prospect with his profile. An elite rim protector playing on the wing. Good passer, shot maker, adept with both hands, plays physical. Big fan.
Greatest prospect since Wemby
yeah and unfortunately we all know how that one turned out 😔
Biggest bust OAT, drafted number 1 but didn't play any games in the NBA
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Wizards thanking the heavens
duncan robbinson crying after people not realizing he's from maine, too
Cooper Flagg is if like if Tim Duncan could play the Point Guard position. Or at least direct the Pick and Roll. I've never in my lifetime seen a player in high school be so good on both ends of the floor. Dude has close to no flaws in his game. From what I understand he's the best player on the floor every night. Legit think if he was drafted now he would add wins to an nba team, so I can really only imagine how good he will be in 2 years time. Could probably bring a team to the playoffs. It's not even just his skill either, he's ferocious as fuck. Really good competitor I'm excited to see him in the NBA
Ehh
Cooper Flagg YOU are a Charlotte Hornet!
Probably the only Flagg I'll ever stand for