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• Tiny Nick’s Gambling Picks: 01/17
Locks NBA (0.75 Unit) Toronto Raptors @ Milwaukee Bucks -11 (-110; Odds via Caesars): 7:00 PM CT on SportsNet Ignore the two wins in a row from Toronto this week, I can promise you the franchise did not try to win those games as they pursue Cooper Flagg. What it might have done is hold this number down a little bit though, and make it easier for a hot Milwaukee team to cover a big spread....2025
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• Ranking the NBA teams in the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes

After the Brooklyn Nets' historic 59-point loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday, the Nets (14-27) have firmly put themselves in the 2025 tanking race for the first-overall pick in this year's NBA draft....2025
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• 2025 NBA Mock Draft: Duke's Cooper Flagg is top pick ahead of Rutgers' Dylan Harper, Ace Bailey

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• Cooper Flagg is trending as one of the best NBA Draft prospects in modern history

Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images Cooper Flagg has somehow exceeded the stratospheric hype. The NBA had a premonition Cooper Flagg was bound for future superstardom long before he put on a Duke jersey. It was the NBA’s interest that convinced Flagg to reclassify, essentially skipping his senior year of high school to enroll in college at just 17 years old. It was at the NBA’s behest th...2025
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• Fantasy Basketball Dynasty Weekly: Cooper Flagg leads talented 2025 draft class

Flagg is the star, but the 2025 rookie class has plenty of talent from top to bottom....2025
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• NBA To Hold 2025 Draft Lottery On May 12th

The NBA has announced that the 2025 draft lottery will be held in Chicago On May 12th. Cooper Flagg and Dylan Harper are widely expected to be the top candidates for the draft. The NBA will hold the draft combine in Chicago between May 11th and 18th....2025
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• Handicapping NBA’s tank race for Cooper Flagg by most likely team to land No. 1 draft pick

Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images These nine NBA teams are still in the mix for winning the 2025 NBA Draft lottery and the rights to Cooper Flagg. It only took about 20 games for the 2024-2025 NBA season to completely reshape what we thought we knew coming into the year. The Boston Celtics and Oklahoma City Thunder emerging as the championship favorites in each conference was to be exp...2024
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• Can the 76ers tank for Cooper Flagg? Yes, but it won’t be easy

Photo by Justin Ford/Getty Images Even tanking for Cooper Flagg would be a struggle for the Sixers because of an old trade. The Philadelphia 76ers are supposed to be in the middle of their championship window. Instead, the Sixers own the worst record in the NBA after one month of play, sitting at 2-12 overall after another disastrous loss to the injury-ravaged Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesda...2024
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• The NBA’s Eastern Conference has again descended into loserdom

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images The NBA Eastern Conference was supposed to be better this season. It’s not. This was supposed to be the season the NBA’s Eastern Conference grew up and joined the big leagues. The East has essentially operated like basketball’s junior varsity from the moment Michael Jordan finished pushing off Bryon Russell, but the moves made this summer indicated ...2024
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• 3 NBA teams close to pushing panic button one week into the season

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images The NBA season just opened, but these three teams should already be worried. The NBA’s 82-game regular season is so long and tedious that few teams are ever really out of it until after the All-Star break. Take the 2021-2022 Boston Celtics as the chief example: Boston was just 25-25 through its first 50 games, then finished the year 26-6 before running all ...2024
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• 6 NBA overreactions after 1 game of the 2024-2025 season

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Here are our biggest NBA overreactions after every team has played at least one game this season. Overreacting after the first game of a new season is a right of passage for sports fans. Patience is a virtue, but it’s hard to come by after a long summer without the NBA. Most of the time, fans’ earliest overreactions only serve to confirm their own agend...2024
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• Every NBA team ranked by its 2025 championship chances to start season

Photo by Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images Let’s rank every team in the NBA by their 2025 championship chances to start the season. The start of a new NBA season is the ultimate time for optimism. Every team is undefeated, and each organization’s season-long goals are still within reach. The NBA is fully entrenched in its parity era. The league has had a different champion each of the last six ...2024
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• Kawhi Leonard out ‘indefinitely’ with knee injury before Clippers season even begins

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images The season hasn’t even started, and Kawhi Leonard is already out indefinitely with a knee injury. When the Los Angeles Clippers open the 2024-2025 regular season on Wednesday against the Phoenix Suns, they won’t have their best player on the floor. At the moment, no one knows when Kawhi Leonard will return. Leonard is sidelined ‘indefinitely’ with inflammatio...2024
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• Cooper Flagg is ready to define the next generation of basketball superstardom

Photo by Jim Poorten/NBAE via Getty Images How Cooper Flagg is growing into the next generation’s version of an NBA superstar. Cooper Flagg walked into USA Basketball practice with nothing to lose and everything to prove. He was just about the youngest person in the building, competing against more mature and more accomplished players with far greater pedigrees. He entered the scrimmages ...2024
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• 7 NBA Rookie of the Year candidates, ranked by likelihood of who will win award

Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images Let’s rank the candidates for the 2025 NBA Rookie of the Year award. The 2024 NBA Draft class was always a bit underwhelming, but that should make this year’s Rookie of the Year race even more wide open. The lack of a consensus top prospect a la Victor Wembanyama last year means that almost anyone can make a run to ROY this season, draft position be da...2024
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• The 11 best NBA prospects in high school basketball right now, ranked

Let’s rank the 11 best NBA prospects in high school basketball today. With the NBA and college hoops calendars in their August doldrums, there’s no better time to catch up on grassroots and high school basketball and start looking ahead at the best talent coming down the pipeline. This is the third time I’ve ranked the best NBA prospects in high school basketball at this site. When I did this exe...2023
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• Fantasy Basketball Dynasty Weekly: Cooper Flagg leads talented 2025 draft class
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• NBA To Hold 2025 Draft Lottery On May 12th
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• Cooper Flagg Sets ACC Freshman Record With 42 Points
Duke University forward Cooper Flagg set the ACC freshman scoring record with 42 points on Saturday afternoon. Flagg set the record in the Blue Devils win over Notre Dame. Flagg shot 11-for-14 from the floor, including 4-of-6 on three-pointers. The presumed first overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft also made 16-of-17 free throws, grabbed six rebounds and handed out seven assists. Flagg has been the...2025
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• TGL’s debut match exceeded expectations and 14 other takeaways from opening night

Shane Lowry hits a shot into the screen at the SoFi Center. | Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images The much anticipated debut of golf’s newest venture had the golf world buzzing. Here are some thoughts from its opening night. Here are 15 takeaways from TGL’s highly anticipated opening match, which saw Ludvig Åberg and The Bay Golf dominate Xander Schauffele and New York by a score of 9-to-2....2025
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• Cooper Flagg detonated a Pitt defender for his best dunk yet at Duke

Cooper Flagg’s thunder dunk over a Pitt defender is the first of many posters. Cooper Flagg is finally a man. The Duke freshman entered school as a 17-year-old after reclassifying to start his journey to the NBA a year early, but he turned 18 in Dec. and has been playing like a superstar ever since. Flagg dropped 24 points in back-to-back games in wins over SMU and Virginia Tech, and he was back t...2025
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• Grading the Eastern Conference a third of the way through the season

A third of the way through the NBA season, the Eastern Conference looks to have a handful of worthy contenders, a couple of teams with major trade deadline decisions to make and a handful of teams tanking for Cooper Flagg....2025
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• NBA’s 9 best players on the trade market right now, ranked

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Here are the best players on the NBA trade market. The NBA trade deadline isn’t until Feb. 6, but the deal zone has officially open. Recently signed free agents are now eligible to be traded, meaning all the deals one might concoct on their local trade machine can now theoretically actually go through. The NBA already has a pretty clear picture of buyer...2024
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• Shaedon Sharpe’s dunk broke NBA record for highest vertical leap in-game

Shaedon Sharpe’s record-breaking vertical leap on alley-oop dunk will be difficult to break Shaedon Sharpe might be the most explosive leaper in the NBA. The Portland Trail Blazers guard was a top-10 draft pick despite coming straight out of high school, and he’s starting to become a big part of the team’s rotation now in his third pro season. Sharpe’s huge putback slam against the Minnesota Timb...2024
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• WATCH: Cooper Flagg erupts for ACC Freshman-record 42 points
Top NBA prospect and Duke star Cooper Flagg set an ACC Freshman record with 42 points against Notre Dame. It eclipsed the previous single-game scoring record of 41 set by Boston College’s Olivier Hanlan back in 2013. North Carolina’s Harrison Barnes and Tyler Hansbrough are tied for third with 40-point games. Duke defeated Notre Dame […] The post WATCH: Cooper Flagg erupts for AC...2025
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• Cooper Flagg drops record 42 points in Duke win, No. 3 Iowa State escapes on busy Saturday
Duke freshman star Cooper Flagg scored 42 points against Notre Dame to start a stacked Saturday slate in men's college basketball....2025
• Cooper Flagg drops record 42 points in Duke win, No. 2 Auburn escapes on busy Saturday
Duke freshman star Cooper Flagg scored 42 points against Notre Dame to start a stacked Saturday slate in men's college basketball....2025
• Dylan Harper Viewed By NBA Teams As Consensus Top-2 Pick In 2025 NBA Draft

Dylan Harper has had a strong start to his freshman season at Rutgers and "has established himself among front offices as a consensus top-two pick at this stage," reports Jeremy Woo of ESPN. Harper is even a candidate to be selected at No. 1 even though Cooper Flagg remains the favorite. Harper is averaging 21.1 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.5 assists. Harper is shooting 36 percent on almost five thr...2025
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• Cooper Flagg detonated a Pitt defender for his best dunk yet at Duke
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• The Hornets have become the NBA’s most pathetic team

Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images The Hornets’ rebuild hasn’t gone as planned. The Charlotte Hornets outdid themselves on Thursday night. In the midst of 2-14 run between the regular season and NBA Cup the team headed to Washington on a night where there were no excuses. Charlotte’s core players were all healthy at once after being injures sporadically throughout the season, and the Hornets we...2024
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• LeBron James is losing to Father Time, and the Lakers are cooked

Photo by David Berding/Getty Images Only trades for more help can save the Lakers from falling off a cliff. The Los Angeles Lakers’ first 14 games provided a fleeting moment of hope that perhaps a new head coach really could fix all their problems. Since then, the Lakers have descended into the cold reality of their long-time mediocrity, slipping down the Western Conference standings as th...2024
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• Hunter Dickinson ejected for kicking Duke player in head after foul

The Kansas star center was ejected on a flagrant-two foul after kicking a Duke player in the head. The Kansas Jayhawks and Duke Blue Devils played a marquee early season matchup in Las Vegas to begin Feast Week in men’s college basketball. While presumptive No. 1 overall NBA draft pick Cooper Flagg drew most of the attention as he took on the No. 1 team in the polls, it was Kansas’ super senior Hu...2024
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with Cooper Flagg saving one lucky team

Aryanna Frank-Imagn Images Here’s our latest 2025 NBA mock draft. The 2025 NBA Draft lottery is going to be one of the marquee events of the season. For all the talent in this draft class, there will be no drama over who gets selected with the No. 1 overall pick. Cooper Flagg is living up to every ounce of hype at the start of his freshman season at Duke. He feels like one of the strongest...2024
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• The NBA’s Eastern Conference has again descended into loserdom
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• 3 NBA teams close to pushing panic button one week into the season
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• Kawhi Leonard out ‘indefinitely’ with knee injury before Clippers season even begins
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• Cameron Boozer, Duke’s latest blue chip commit, is an NBA superstar in the making

Photo by ALTAN GOCHER/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Cameron Boozer is growing into a future NBA star. Next stop: Duke. Here’s why he’s so good. Cameron Boozer has been so good for so long that there can be a tendency to take his steady dominance for granted. As the class of 2025 has come of age, players with more explosive athleticism and more impressive tough shot-making have gotten the...2024
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• Cooper Flagg commits to Duke as the Blue Devils’ next superstar freshman

Photo by John Jones/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Cooper Flagg commits to Duke to be college basketball’s next one-and-done superstar. Duke men’s basketball has landed its next superstar on the recruiting trail. Cooper Flagg, the consensus No. 1 overall player in the class of 2024, has committed to Duke for the 2024-2025 season. Flagg picked the Blue Devils over UConn. It’s safe to say...2023
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• NBA Rumors: Prospect Sparked Tensions At Jayson Tatum’s Camp

Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum held his annual basketball camp, and word on the street is that one upcoming NBA prospect triggered a multi-time All-Star during a not-so-friendly game of 1-on-1. As the story goes, Cooper Flagg, a 16-year-old prospect from Maine, was in attendance during Tatum’s camp and called out nonother than Bradley Beal. […]...2023
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• Flagg reclassifies, could be top '25 NBA draft pick

Cooper Flagg, arguably the best prospect in high school basketball, announced Friday he is reclassifying from 2025 into the 2024 class - leaving him as the new favorite to be the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA draft....2023
• Cooper Flagg and the small New England town that raised basketball’s brightest young star
The NBA hasn’t drafted a Maine native in 40 years. This high schooler from Newport could be the 2025 No. 1 pick....2024
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• Dylan Harper commits to Rutgers over Duke in stunning college hoops recruiting decision

Michael Karas/NorthJersey.com / USA TODAY NETWORK Rutgers (!) has now landed two top-3 overall men’s basketball recruits in the class of 2024. Dylan Harper is spurning the Duke Blue Devils to stay home and try to build a college basketball winner at the most unlikely of schools. Harper has committed to Rutgers, where his father Ron Harper and brother Ron Harper Jr. also starred during thei...2023
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• Peach Jam: NBA scouts pack the gym for A.J. Dybantsa, Cooper Flagg and other top players
Yahoo Sports runs down players NBA scouts were making a priority and getting early eyes on at Peach Jam....2023
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• No. 1 HS Recruit Cooper Flagg Announces He’s Headed to Duke on the Cover of SLAM 247

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• TGL’s debut match exceeded expectations and 14 other takeaways from opening night
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• Shaedon Sharpe’s dunk broke NBA record for highest vertical leap in-game
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• Hunter Dickinson ejected for kicking Duke player in head after foul
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• Can the 76ers tank for Cooper Flagg? Yes, but it won’t be easy
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• Cooper Flagg Loves New England Support In Basketball Journey

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — While Cooper Flagg may have taken his roots to Montverde Academy in Florida, the highly-regarded high school basketball prospect’s foundation still remains in New England. The Newport, Maine native returned to the region to play in the HoopHall Classic. With an extra buzz in the building at Blake Arena, Flagg entertained fans […]...2024
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• Lethal Shooter Q&A: How he’d help Shaq’s free throws, and weird tricks with Dwight Howard

A conversation with celebrity basketball trainer Lethal Shooter on how he teaches clients to knock down their shots. Shooting is at once the most basic and complex component of basketball. You have a ball in your hands, you see a hoop above you, or in front of you, or very far away from you, and you throw the ball into the basket. But being good at that effort, with the machinelike regularity requ...2023
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• Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, Michigan State basketball showed who they really are at Champions Classic

Observations on Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, and Michigan State after the 2023 Champions Classic. CHICAGO — It was 10 years ago this week when I was credentialed to cover the Champions Classic at the United Center for the first time. There was, to steal a phrase, palpable buzz in the building. Duke vs. Kansas was a matchup of the top recruits in the country: Jabari Parker vs. Andrew Wiggins. Both play...2023
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• Duke basketball’s best ever recruits of the one-and-done era, ranked

Let’s rank Duke’s best recruits of the one-and-done era after Cooper Flagg’s commitment. The Duke Blue Devils have maintained their dominance in men’s college basketball recruiting even after the retirement of Mike Krzyzewski. New head coach Jon Scheyer landed the No. 1 ranked recruiting class in the country in his first year in charge with the class of 2022, and his haul in the class of 2023 ran...2023
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• Duke Fans Hoping Their Football Team Beats UConn As 5-Star Cooper Flagg Visits Connecticut This Weekend
5-star basketball recruit Cooper Flagg has began his official college visits. There is a buzz around the number one player in the class of 2024 as prestigious programs, including Duke, UConn, and Kansas, vie for his commitment. His first visit this weekend to UConn comes with a twist as he will watch UConn vs. the […] The post Duke Fans Hoping Their Football Team Beats UConn As 5-Star Cooper...2023
• Cooper Flagg is Basketball's Next Hyped Prospect

Cooper Flagg made more headlines with a buzzer beater at Rucker Park, as the hyped high school phenom continues to rise up draft boards while creating highlight reels....2023
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• Cooper Flagg’s buzzer beater was yet another insane moment for the HS star

Class of 2024 high school basketball star Cooper Flagg hit a crazy buzzer-beater in the SLAM Summer Classic....2023