Tag: Cooper Flagg
The Dallas Mavericks are shutting down Cooper Flagg for the remainder of the NBA summer league, ending the No. 1 overall pick’s Las Vegas stint after just two games. The Mavs’ decision to shut down Flagg was first reported Sunday by NBA insider Marc Stein. Cooper Flagg Bounced Back In NBA Summer League The Mavs […]
The 2025 NBA Draft is complete and it’s time to reflect. We’ve already handed out draft-night grades but now it’s time to assess the very basis of those grades! Over here at Basketball Insiders, we’ve compiled eight different mock drafts to see who performed the best (and worst). The sites used are ESPN, The Athletic, The […]
The 2025 NBA Draft is here and Basketball Insiders will have you covered from start to finish of the first round. This year’s draft class has been highly touted for a couple years now, and their moment in the spotlight has arrived. The workouts are complete, as are the interviews. Now, it’s time to sit back […]
Everyone has a take when it comes to the 2025 NBA Draft. We react and judge way too early but is there ever any accountability? Sure, it’s a fun exercise making a mock draft and all, but we also want to be right. With that in mind, I’ve put together several mock drafts to keep […]
No part of basketball captivates me like beautiful passing does. Possibly reflective of my basketball strengths and weaknesses, I’ve always felt partial to brilliant players with a sixth sense for playmaking. Hours of watching Jason Williams, Steve Nash and Chris Paul passing highlights growing up led me to my most ambitious scouting project to date. […]
Forecasting the NBA Draft is no simple task. The first few picks shouldn’t be too hard, as the top two of the 2025 class — Duke freshman Cooper Flagg and Rutgers freshman Dylan Harper — exist within their own tiers. Beyond that, there’s plenty of uncertainty for this fluid draft class. Trades on and before […]
With less than two weeks to go until the 2025 NBA Draft, plenty of insider mock drafts will keep circling the draft space. Even with reliable intel and sourcing, predicting how any draft will fall is a near-impossible endeavor While I can’t accurately predict what each team will do, I can determine what I would […]
Traditional measures of passing struggle to fully capture a player’s level of playmaking. All assists and turnovers aren’t created equally, yet they’re weighed as such in basic stats. I aimed to create hand-tracked, subjective measures of passing quality to better estimate a player’s passing quality. Inspired by Pro Football Focus’s “Big Time Throw” metric, I […]
An NBA executive anticipates the most draft pick trade activity in league history at the 2025 NBA Draft. ESPN’s Bobby Marks revealed the information when making an appearance on NBA Today. There is one major reason for this level of trade activity involving draft picks. Several teams in the lottery are expected to be playoff teams […]
A wild twist of basketball fate will send Cooper Flagg to Dallas by way of the top pick in 2025. The 2025 NBA Draft is the Cooper Flagg draft and for good reason. He’s one of the very best prospects of the millennium, whose presence will shift the trajectory of his future franchise. That franchise […]
