Brian Scalabrini

Do you think any of the guys in this draft are as good as Cooper Flagg?

No.

The thing that separates Cooper is his, we call it a processor in the NBA, right?

Like your microprocessor.

Like he thinks the game like LeBron thinks the game.

He's two steps ahead of everybody.

And everyone wants to know that comparable.

And they kept asking me, what is he?

And I'm like, you're best to look at LeBron James, phenomenal high school player, one at a super high level, gets downhill, he'll score points, but he doesn't necessarily at this point have that go-to shot.

I mean, LeBron has scored over 60,000 points when you think about playoffs and regular season.

And there's not like a quintessential shot that he has.

So I kind of look at him as a basketball player and

If I'm building nowadays, I want my best players to be able to get people involved, to be able to get to the rim, make rim reads, and be able to defend his position, right?

Cooper's a plus rebounder.

He's great in transition.

He can play on the ball.

He can play off the ball.

So I think, like, yeah, from a...

a prospect moving forward i think a lot of people would like to have cooper flag on their team i've always said this about him he will only be measured in titles and championships that's it like no one will say is he good enough to do this or all nba or the money that he makes like those things are a given and there are stars that live in that category but at the end of the day his the

Where we judge Cooper Flagg on his legacy will be based on, can the Dallas Mavericks or wherever he is at any time, can they put a team around him to support him and to be able to make a championship run?