What Cooper Flagg's reaction to Mavs getting No. 1 pick revealed -- and why a familiar name keeps coming up

What Cooper Flagg's reaction to Mavs getting No. 1 pick revealed -- and why a familiar name keeps coming up

Flagg is warming up to the thought of the Mavs, and a further Duke reunion could make life in the Big D more comfortable

Nets miss out on Cooper Flagg, but poised for deep draft rebuild

Tanking, ethical or not, doesn’t ensure NBA Draft Lottery success. The Nets were one of several teams who learned this the hard way on Monday in Chicago. Despite holding the sixth-best odds in the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes, the ping pong balls didn’t fall in Brooklyn’s favor, leaving it with the No. 8 pick in June. Reports suggest Flagg was one ping pong ball away from joining the Nets. That’s a gut punch for Nets fans, but they weren’t alone in …

A single ping pong ball separated the Nets from Cooper Flagg, so now what?

Monday night’s NBA Draft Lottery results — the Nets’ season-long tank resulting in just the No. 8 overall pick — was like a punch in the gut to...