Speaker 1: They're about to have the number one pick in the
Speaker 1: NBA Draft tonight. They're going to select Cooper Flag, the
Speaker 1: undisputed number one prospecting.
Speaker 2: This bad boy.
Speaker 1: He's a guy who when he was a sophomore in
Speaker 1: high school, they knew one day he would be the
Speaker 1: number one pick of the NBA Draft. It's just been
Speaker 1: a no brainer, and the MAVs got him somehow. They
Speaker 1: lucked into this, and it is an organization that desperately
Speaker 1: needed it. We are here at the American Airlines Center
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Speaker 1: a little bit better. He'll be the matter, he'll be
Speaker 1: a Maverick. As what time is the pick gonna happen?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean seven, probably seven, ten, seven fifteen, right are
Speaker 3: on that because the draft one starts on seven? So uh,
Speaker 3: this is the uh, the mystery behind it is not
Speaker 3: here like it was the Luca Draft And that was
Speaker 3: the last time we were this close so that that
Speaker 3: part is a little strange because we're frankly not used
Speaker 3: to our teams having the number one pick in the draft.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I you know, I was thinking about all the
Speaker 1: number one picks overall in DFW sports history. I go
Speaker 1: back to I think it was nineteen eighty one. The
Speaker 1: Mavericks launched in nineteen eighty eighty one. They drafted Mark McGuire,
Speaker 1: the number one overall pick. That was my favorite player.
Speaker 1: That's when I fell in love with basketball at that time.
Speaker 1: I was eleven. And you know, of course Troy aik
Speaker 1: Ben Troy what year was that, eight eighty eight, eighty nine,
Speaker 1: ninety somewhere in there, and obviously went on to do
Speaker 1: great things as the Page Buckets. They just, of course
Speaker 1: just just had one. But I can't think of another.
Speaker 1: And plus sometimes you get the number one pick and
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. It's just a draft where there's not
Speaker 1: a for sure number one. This is a draft where
Speaker 1: Cooper Flag is. People are saying one of the best
Speaker 1: two way prospects since Anthony Davis.
Speaker 2: You know, this guy is a can't miss.
Speaker 1: Rock star and they got him, and uh, you know
Speaker 1: this this organization deeply, deeply needed it if you think
Speaker 1: about just how traumatized this team's fan base was from
Speaker 1: trading Luca. We were all blindsided by that. And for me,
Speaker 1: I still think it's the worst trade in the history
Speaker 1: of trading. Like it's a terrible trade. I wouldn't do
Speaker 1: that trade in a millionaires for any reason. I would
Speaker 1: never make that trade. You cannot justify that trade. But
Speaker 1: if you look at it and you're like, Okay, you
Speaker 1: got Anthony Davis back, you got Max Christy, you got
Speaker 1: a first round pick, and you get Cooper Flag, now
Speaker 1: obviously that's not what the trade was. I don't believe
Speaker 1: in conspiracies and I don't believe in all that, but
Speaker 1: that's the net net. And so for me, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna I've been a MAVs fan my whole life since
Speaker 1: eighty and so if I'm not gonna leave the Mavericks.
Speaker 1: I thought about it, but eventually I would have come
Speaker 1: around and been a MAVs fan again. But what I
Speaker 1: love most is hope. When you have a young star
Speaker 1: with a big, bright future, you have hope. And now
Speaker 1: they've got the youngest player in the league, they're about
Speaker 1: to have him, and they've got hope, and.
Speaker 2: So I'm back.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm able to compartmentalize. Yes, I thought that was
Speaker 1: a terrible trade, but I'm not mad at the MAVs.
Speaker 2: I'm moving on.
Speaker 3: I know there's a certain force to the fan base
Speaker 3: that is still clinging to well, it wasn't supposed to happen. Still, though,
Speaker 3: that trade is almost like now that you ended up
Speaker 3: with a number one pick, it almost rewards the issue
Speaker 3: that the trade, like the stupidity of the trade or
Speaker 3: whatever you want to call it. And I get that,
Speaker 3: but I would also say, like, when something like that
Speaker 3: happens out of nowhere and it's not expected to happen,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of things in life that work that way.
Speaker 3: If your parents didn't meet and then have relations with
Speaker 3: each other, you wouldn't exist. Like, there's so many things
Speaker 3: that happen on a day to day basis. If you
Speaker 3: didn't jump into traffic, you know, if you jumped into
Speaker 3: traffic five minutes earlier, you might have been in that collision.
Speaker 4: So kind of like Butterfly, it's just yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Just the way life goes and it worked out really
Speaker 3: well for us. So to me, it feels almost greedy
Speaker 3: to still be like up in arms about things, and
Speaker 3: you can still have concerns and issues with how the
Speaker 3: thing might be ran going forward, But overall, I just
Speaker 3: think it's one of those things where you go, Wow,
Speaker 3: it's been a crazy sy months and I'm way it's
Speaker 3: unbelievable to feel the way we feel now compared to
Speaker 3: how we were feeling in April.
Speaker 1: Right, because even if they had the number two pick,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be over the Luca trade and the fact
Speaker 1: that it's number one when there's a transcendent number one player,
Speaker 1: Christina you talked earlier, I think he made a good
Speaker 1: point about you think it's gonna help you heal with
Speaker 1: the Luca trade once Cooper Flag is actually in a
Speaker 1: jersey and playing for the MAVs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because, like you said, the whole trade was just
Speaker 4: such a blind side. I'm still just scared that it
Speaker 4: might happen again. I don't think it will, but Ted
Speaker 4: earlier got me excited too, because one thing about Luca, like, yes,
Speaker 4: he's a great player, but he made basketball so fun
Speaker 4: to watch, Like I loved just watching Luca. I still
Speaker 4: love watching Luca. Like you can be a mass fan
Speaker 4: and a Luca fan. It's okay anyway, but so Cooper
Speaker 4: Flag and I watched a few highlights as well, Like
Speaker 4: he has that as well, Like he's really good at.
Speaker 2: Basketball, but he's fun to watch.
Speaker 4: He does these really cool things you don't see other
Speaker 4: players do, and he makes it look easy and again fun.
Speaker 4: So I'm just excited to have them watching this again.
Speaker 4: I mean, Kyrie is fun to watch as well, but
Speaker 4: he's been hurt whatever.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I think it's a big part of this is
Speaker 3: like we haven't experienced anything with Cooper Flag yet. Yeah,
Speaker 3: very few of us went and watched a ton of
Speaker 3: Duke basketball last year, like until you experienced these good
Speaker 3: times with him in a MAVs uniform.
Speaker 2: We had questions about Luca. We didn't know when.
Speaker 3: We got looka we we thought it was cool that
Speaker 3: it happened, but we still didn't know.
Speaker 2: We were not sure.
Speaker 3: And then it became you know, the stories had come
Speaker 3: out like oh yeah, he's taken over practice and before
Speaker 3: pre in training camp and things like that, and you know,
Speaker 3: Dirk said some good things about him. So like that's
Speaker 3: where it's gonna I think bring a lot of people
Speaker 3: back in is when just just having good things happen.
Speaker 2: Now, I want to play a couple of things. Yesterday,
Speaker 2: he had a.
Speaker 3: Pre draft press conference, as a lot of players did,
Speaker 3: and he can't acknowledge that he is going to be
Speaker 3: picked by the Dallas Mavericks, like because it's not official
Speaker 3: and he's just not allowed to talk about it. Uh.
Speaker 3: Max was telling us a little bit earlier, like Duke
Speaker 3: put out a congrats to Dallas MAVs in a video
Speaker 3: of Cooper fight, like they can do that, but like
Speaker 3: no one in the NBA can do that right now.
Speaker 3: So he's getting asked all these questions and he can't
Speaker 3: say anything about the Mavericks. So I just thought you
Speaker 3: guys would like some of the things that happened in
Speaker 3: this pre draft press conference, Like how about this question
Speaker 3: when he was asked, do you like lobster?
Speaker 5: Being from you like lobster?
Speaker 2: You know, lobster isn't my personal.
Speaker 5: Favorite, but you know, a good main lobster role. You know,
Speaker 5: my trainer's life makes a really nice lobster role. I
Speaker 5: think is really good.
Speaker 4: Good, thank you very much. My trainer's wife makes a
Speaker 4: really good lobster if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna start using that trainer's wife. That is good.
Speaker 2: That is good.
Speaker 1: So basically I don't have a good feel for what
Speaker 1: his personality is like. I don't I don't know, like Luca.
Speaker 1: We love Luca, but Luca was not a good interview.
Speaker 2: He was on Language seven, you know, right, Yeah, a
Speaker 2: lot of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so I don't know if this could be
Speaker 1: the same, and especially the age. So what he's he's eighteen,
Speaker 1: So how many eighteen year olds give good interviews?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: You know, So I don't know what his personality's like.
Speaker 1: And obviously he's not done growing into whatever his personality
Speaker 1: is going to be. But I do like listening to
Speaker 1: technicals Pain talk about what a killer he is on
Speaker 1: the court.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Yeah, godly technicals Pain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be crazy, rest of Peace, that would
Speaker 1: be crazy if Technicals Pain was here. God, I was
Speaker 1: guess I was thinking that he's who taught I haven't everything,
Speaker 1: But yeah, Ted Emrick, he was great when he was talking.
Speaker 2: About what a killer he is. And you know some
Speaker 2: players have that.
Speaker 1: Some players don't, like Kobe had that, Michael Jordan had that.
Speaker 2: You know, not everybody is wired like that.
Speaker 3: I didn't know Ted had seen that since iigh school
Speaker 3: because his story is crazy. Basically, I'm too good in
Speaker 3: this small town in Maine. And I think he had
Speaker 3: a quote from his mom was Mama. He said, if
Speaker 3: you're the best player in the gym, you need to
Speaker 3: go to a bigger gym. Yes, and that's really really great.
Speaker 3: So he was asked and he's got to dance around
Speaker 3: these questions. Are you looking forward to being a Maverick?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean I'm not on social media too much, and
Speaker 5: I think, like I said earlier, I'm just trying to
Speaker 5: take it one day at a time. So that is
Speaker 5: the case tomorrow that ends up happening. I mean, I've
Speaker 5: heard it's an incredible fan base with incredible support, so
Speaker 5: I'll be excited to learn more about it and get
Speaker 5: down there.
Speaker 2: Okay, dude, not on social media, thank you. I know
Speaker 2: you'd like that. I love that.
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 4: Is that true though? Or is he just saying that
Speaker 4: because he's eighteen? I mean, how many eighteen year old
Speaker 4: or not? Are you act? I mean, you're you're older
Speaker 4: and eighteen.
Speaker 2: But I mean I got social media.
Speaker 1: I know Cooper Flagg has an Instagram, but I don't
Speaker 1: think he's active on Twitter or acts.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: It's like he's probably got a team of people who
Speaker 3: handle this stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean his family's prepped for this for a while.
Speaker 1: You know, the idea of you know, we've talked about
Speaker 1: this a lot here in Dallas Fort Worth, where the
Speaker 1: idea of Tony Romo going on a vacation where it's like,
Speaker 1: why are you doing that? Why aren't you just somewhere,
Speaker 1: you know, throwing a football through rubber tire, you know,
Speaker 1: throwing it through the hole. And why are you just
Speaker 1: looking at game film? What do you mean you live
Speaker 1: outside of that, you know, And so you want these
Speaker 1: guys to be robots. Sean Lee was like that, an
Speaker 1: absolute robot who's just anytime he's not playing, he's looking
Speaker 1: at film or lifting weights. But then you get guys
Speaker 1: where they're like they have big personalities and they're on
Speaker 1: social media, like Derek Hollin and people like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he's doing Arnold Schwartz and anger impressions get back in
Speaker 1: the you know, you know, And so I mean, you
Speaker 1: like these guys to have personalities and be great interviews.
Speaker 1: But the reality is, I would if I'm drafted a
Speaker 1: guy to you know, at number one. I love that
Speaker 1: he's not active on social media. Stay away from social media.
Speaker 1: There's really not much good that happens on social media.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a bunch of toxicity and poison. Don't
Speaker 1: ever let these people some guy just eating a tweaky
Speaker 1: on his couch can critique your game. You don't need
Speaker 1: to see everyone's opinion.
Speaker 2: This is the thing i'ld say.
Speaker 3: Like the Luca thing, which was devastating for so many people,
Speaker 3: it was also devastating for so many people who also
Speaker 3: talk trash about Luca actively as a mask. Yes you
Speaker 3: loved him, but you got mad at his lack of
Speaker 3: effort on defense, or his inability to stay in shape
Speaker 3: and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: Yelling at the rest every call.
Speaker 3: You can't act like that's the only thing that was,
Speaker 3: because we were all bitching about that too, and like it's.
Speaker 2: Just what the world is. Though.
Speaker 1: I look around the league and you look at all
Speaker 1: these achilles injuries now you know, and they they come
Speaker 1: from strained calves. And then if you know, if you
Speaker 1: look at what Boston's doing, Okay, our best player tours achilles.
Speaker 2: We have to get rid of the team.
Speaker 1: We have to get rid of everyone, so we're not
Speaker 1: you know, in this luxury tax and it's like you,
Speaker 1: it can bury your franchise if one of your best
Speaker 1: players has to miss an entire year with an achilles issue.
Speaker 1: And Luca had three calf injuries in two years, and
Speaker 1: so yeah, man, it's just this. You know, it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard to not tie Cooper flag back to Luca
Speaker 1: because it all happened in such close proximity to itself.
Speaker 3: Then, if you had one seat to give to a celebrity,
Speaker 3: you're gonna sit court side at a game with someone.
Speaker 3: He had one seat to give to a celebrity, who
Speaker 3: would it be?
Speaker 1: Probably my guy Tom Cruise. We got a lot to
Speaker 1: catch up. We've gone through a lot together. Probably want
Speaker 1: to hang out with my guy Tom.
Speaker 2: Here was Cooper Flagg's answer.
Speaker 1: Court sights.
Speaker 2: That's a good question.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you count Larry Bird is a celebrity,
Speaker 5: but that would be really cool.
Speaker 2: No, I don't have a favorite rapper. No, I don't
Speaker 2: have a favorite rab yo. He doesn't have a favorite rapper,
Speaker 2: but Larry Bird, I mean a classic.
Speaker 3: The best thing he could have said is derk And
Speaker 3: you know, but he was expecting a question like that, right,
Speaker 3: he said, But Larry Birds, imagine.
Speaker 2: Larry Bird's always been his favorite player, is what I read.
Speaker 2: So he loves Larry Bird, and.
Speaker 1: Man, I don't know what you know if Dirk will
Speaker 1: be You know, we've heard a lot about this with
Speaker 1: the Luca trade and the moves that the MAVs have
Speaker 1: made that have gotten away from some of the guys
Speaker 1: Dirk loves, and Dirk hasn't really been around that much,
Speaker 1: and so I don't know if he'll have a relationship
Speaker 1: with Cooper Flagg.
Speaker 2: I really hope he will. I hope he does.
Speaker 3: Should be in LA a lot doing basketball, Yeah, doing
Speaker 3: the Amazon thing too, So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Hey, how do you want Cooper Flag to score his
Speaker 3: first NBA bucket?
Speaker 2: What would you like for that to be?
Speaker 1: I would like him to dunk on Lou Dort Lou Dort.
Speaker 2: I like the question here because how do you want
Speaker 2: to call christ India bucket?
Speaker 5: Maybe duncan on some my I thought that would be
Speaker 5: pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Nice And then what position are you Cooper Flag?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think positionless is a great was a great
Speaker 5: way to put it. You know, I'll do whatever you
Speaker 5: know coach wants me to do. I'll play any role.
Speaker 5: So for me, it's about just doing a ton of
Speaker 5: different things with the court. Thing, like I said earlier,
Speaker 5: just being an impact player, you know, impacting both sides
Speaker 5: of the ball at a high level and impacting winning
Speaker 5: at a high level. So where that's you know, getting
Speaker 5: it off the you know, off the room in a
Speaker 5: rebound and pushing a transition, that's something I feel like
Speaker 5: I can do at a high level. So I would
Speaker 5: love to do that. Or if it's playing off ball,
Speaker 5: you know, cutting, slashing, spotting up, you know, I'm I'm
Speaker 5: ready to do whatever whatever that may be.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's the most exciting interview yet, you know,
Speaker 3: but maybe you know, in time that'll come. Right now,
Speaker 3: he's just going through the process of having everyone watching.
Speaker 4: Him, and yeah, he'll get more comfortable and he can
Speaker 4: actually talk about being a Dallas maver.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: God, I love the answer, though, great answer. I love
Speaker 2: the answer. It's like he was made at a laboratory.
Speaker 3: This is the thing, like we've Another thing that was
Speaker 3: infuriating about the Luca trade was we had spent all
Speaker 3: this time and attention to detail and building a team
Speaker 3: around him and had done that and gone to the
Speaker 3: finals and lost, and then even though he was hurt. Still,
Speaker 3: we were kind of dunking on the thunder the two
Speaker 3: times we played them, once with him and once without him.
Speaker 2: It is like, this is kind of our year. We
Speaker 2: don't have to go shake things up.
Speaker 3: We had built everything around him, but if you could
Speaker 3: take yourself away from that, building around Cooper Flag is
Speaker 3: so simple. Because of that, they just said, kind of
Speaker 3: do everything. You don't have to just go we have
Speaker 3: to get shooters around him.
Speaker 2: He can do everything everything.
Speaker 3: So I'm pretty jacked about this, and I think, like again,
Speaker 3: because we've known what's gonna happen, He's gonna get picked tonight.
Speaker 3: It's that part's been hard for me to kind of
Speaker 3: get excited. But the more talking about it, and in
Speaker 3: a minute, I'm gonna ask a couple of things. One
Speaker 3: is would you buy this item that's surrounding Cooper Flag today?
Speaker 3: And two, we think his family was going through because
Speaker 3: they thought they were gonna be going to either Washington
Speaker 3: or Charlotte. And there's a huge article that was written
Speaker 3: about that today and it's all awesome to see how their.
Speaker 2: Minds went on Draft day as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, tasty, that's coming up next as we continue our
Speaker 1: coverage of the NBA Draft. The Mavericks with the number
Speaker 1: one pick, Cooper Flag will be selected. Our coverage brought
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