The Dallas Mavericks gave the NBA one of the greatest surprises in the history of the League when they exchanged Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers in February. When they won the NBA recovery lottery on Monday, the fans wondered if Nico Harrison could have a reminder in mind. That said, there does not seem to be surprises in store when choice n ° 1 will be announced in June. The Mavericks will not exchange the choice, and they will select Duke’s Cooper Flagg, according to ESPN.
Flagg was the obvious choice n ° 1 all the season, but Harrison’s decision to negotiate Dončić, 25, for an Anthony Davis, 31, suggested that Dallas was in the present. If this had been the case, Dallas could have offered Flagg for a number of veterans stars, including Giannis Antetokounmpo Should he become available.
However, the governor of Mavericks, Patrick Dumont, considers Flagg as a “gift”, according to Tim McMahon d’Espn. This seems appropriate given the long chances that Dallas has overcome it. The Mavericks entered the lottery on Monday with only 1.8% chance of landing the Flagg. Its presence potentially solves many of the problems created by Dončić’s trade.
Where are the Mavericks here? Cooper Flagg forces Dallas to embrace a future that the team has already rejected
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Fans considered Dončić as a successor to Dirk Nowitzki as a local superstar that could become an icon in Dallas for several decades. They were never going to see the older Davis, who has already won a championship with the Lakers, in the same way, and many of these fans abandoned the team accordingly. In Flagg, however, they have a second chance for this successor Nowitzki, someone that fans can watch to become a superstar throughout his career.
Dallas needed this kind of luck as a lottery now because he does not control his first round choices between 2027 and 2030. This year and the next one were the only real chances that the Mavericks were going to have a leading prospect, but because Harrison had exchanged Dončić for a veteran in Davis instead of young people and of choice, they were unlikely to get one. They beat the chances for Flagg, and now the organization has judiciously decided to kiss its fortune. There are still a number of questions in Dallas. We do not know how Flagg is integrated and with whom he will play, but we now know that he will at least be in the team. There is no second controversial incoming blockbuster.