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New York – It could be said that the worst saved secret in the history of sport, the Dallas Mavericks made him official on Wednesday night when they selected Duke Superstar Cooper Flagg with the general selection number 1 in the NBA draft.
From the moment the Mavericks won the NBA draft lottery on May 12 until Wednesday, this moment was never in doubt. But conspiracy theorists believe that Flagg became a rebel long before May 12.
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Rolando Blackman of Dallas Mavericks celebrates after the NBA attached commissioner Mark Tatum announced that the Mavericks won the first selection in the NBA basketball draft lottery lottery in Chicago in Chicago, on Monday, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Dallas surprised the world of sport in early February when he apparently changed his franchise player Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers in a three team agreement that also involved Utah’s jazz. In return, the Mavericks received Anthony Davis. But did they also receive the first choice in the NBA Draft of 2025 so that they could select flag? That is the question that has been circulating online.
For his part, Flagg didn’t mind addressing Internet conspiracy theorists when Outkick asked him on Wednesday night.
“I don’t know what to say about that,” Flagg said with a smile. “I have no internal information if that is what you are looking for, but I feel blessed by the way everything worked.”
The NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, essentially denied that this was the case earlier this week, when he said in a podcast that he only discovered about Doncic’s trade hours before the rest of the world.
Duke striker, Cooper, Flagg, reacts against Houston during the second half in national semifinals in the last four of the NCAA University Basketball Tournament, on Saturday, April 5, 2025, in San Antonio. (Photo AP/Brynn Anderson)
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“Luka is a good example in which the teams are very reserved, they are not necessarily turning us. We had heard of that before the public, but it was only a matter of hours,” said Silver, while adding that he does not possess the power of veto exchanges, not that he would have done that, anyway.
That does not prevent people from wondering. What are the chances that the Mavericks change their best player with the Los Angeles Lakers, the most popular NBA franchise, and three months later they reached a probability of less than 2 percent of writing a player who is expected to be the next superstar of the Great League?
Well, the answer is a 1.8%probability. And that happens.
Obviously, the NBA will never admit that it manipulated a draft lottery and, frankly, the possibilities are quite scarce that did. At the end of the day, Cooper Flagg is now an NBA player for the Dallas Mavericks and has the opportunity to become the next face of the League.
The NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks at the press conference before the NBA season tournament endings between Los Angeles Lakers and Indiana Pacers at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States on December 9, 2023. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu through Getty Images)
The NBA also needs it, because the grades are decreasing at a fast pace. The League desperately wants Flagg to become the next great superstar that attracts casual sports fans to professional basketball. It remains to be seen if that guy can be.
