What is the level of the No. 1 pick Flag? ESPN reveals the draft template, James posts suspected of sarcasm

1.8 probability, surpassing 14% of the Hornets, Jazz and Wizards, the Mavericks won the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. Is it luck or NBA reporter Joe Pompliano, as O'Neal forwarded, commented, "Although I have no insider information about the NBA, this probability occurs a few months after Doncic trades to Los Angeles. It seems to be too coincidental?"

The Mavericks will try out Cooper Flag, a 19-year-old All-American basketball man. In the eyes of the outside world, Flag, whose fame has been resounding in the NBA, is also the top pick in 2025! Flag, born in Maine in 2006, is 203cm tall, weighs 86kg, has an arm span of 224cm, and has a 111cm start and jump. His static talent supports him as the top pick. In terms of resume, Flag was a five-star high school student in the 2025 class and then jumped to become a 2024 class player. In this case, he still won the American Basketball Master and Naismith High School Basketball Player of the Year. He averaged 20.5 points, 10.0 rebounds, 6.2 assists, 3.7 steals and 3.7 blocks in his first year of high school and led the Nocomis High School to win the state championship. Subsequently, he represented the American youth team in international basketball events and also won the U17 Men's Basketball World Cup gold medal.

While playing at Duke this season, Flag played 31 games, playing for 31.0 minutes during the period, his personal data was 19.4 points, 7.6 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.5 steals, 1.3 blocks and 2.2 turnovers. In terms of hit rate, 49.4% + 37.7% + 83.0%, and the real hit rate is 60.3%! In terms of defense, technical statistics show that Flag can contribute 1.9 steals + 2.8 blocks every 40 minutes, with an efficiency value of 92.3, the highest among all players in the ACC period. In other words, Flag was good at attacking and defending and scored 102 points in the rookie rating battle given by ESPN in March, which broke the highest NBA draft score set by Wenban Yama in the past 10 years, which was previously 101 points.

Who will Flag's draft template be? The report from ESPN also pointed out that Jonathan Givony, a well-known draft expert, once revealed that the GMs in the NBA believe that the Clippers' Leonard will be Flagg's draft template! For this reason, it can be said that the offense and defense of the quasi-no.com score is quite balanced. After all, the latter is known as an excellent presence in the NBA.

Interestingly, in addition to being busy with personal basketball podcasts, James also paid attention to the 2025 NBA draft draw today. After the lottery ceremony, he posted on his personal social media, with multiple "hilarious" emoticons!

Here, James does not have any other attached text, but we can speculate based on his previous words about draft lottery. "Cleveland won the No. 1 pick, just like they wanted me to stay in Akron. Ross and Ewing were also drawn by their hometown team, which made me understand the truth!"

O'Neal and NBA reporters also mentioned the "insider" of draws like James. For this reason, James' emoticons seem to imply that there are certain problems in the NBA's draw. After all, the Mavericks lost Doncic, but they soon got Flag, who is expected to get superstars in the future, and in terms of lineup, the Mavericks next season are really amazing.