Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg roasted for not recognizing NBA greats
Cooper Flagg arrived in Dallas under a glare of expectation, the No. 1 overall pick, fresh off a dominant freshman season at Duke, expected to carry huge promise. But at one Mavericks media day event, he found himself wrestling with perhaps the least flattering of rookie tests: identifying retired stars from the year he was born.In a "name-that-player" segment, Flagg was shown trading cards of NBA players drafted in 2006, the same year he entered the world. He struggled. Asked to identify Hedo Turkoglu, he admitted: "Not good to start. Don't know him." From there, gaps showed, he couldn't name Zydrunas Ilgauskas, skipped Eric Snow entirely, and faltered on Rasual Butler, Antoine Wright, and Rashad McCants.He did manage to name Juwan Howard (now an assistant coach) and Michael Finley (whose post-playing role with Dallas likely made that an easier guess). […]
