2025 draft thread: THE MAVS SELECT COOPER FLAGG

[F Gump]

I'm still holding my breath.

Nico seems like the type that can't do the obvious because it isn't complicated enough for him and it doesn't give him the opportunity to be the smartest guy in the room.
He's also completely cleared this roster of white guys.

These two things concern me about Nico keeping the pick and I'll believe it when I see it.

I've said this before, and I'll repeat it
1 I don't think NTI has the final say on whether they draft and keep Flagg (in fact, I have to think he's on a fairly short leash from now on),
....To elaborate on point 1, no GM ever has unilateral ability to change the roster on his whims. Every trade, draft pick, waiver, etc must come from the team's governor (Dumont) and is controlled at that level. Obviously a a governor can certainly be persuaded, or easily be approving, and therefore opt to rubber stamp whatever their GM might propose, but NTI should have lost level of trust.
2 I believe that if NTI even proposed they trade Flagg - with the level of further damage to fans and the PR damage and franchise-value damage that would ensue - it would get him fired on the spot. Flagg is the goose that will lay the golden eggs, and he had better build around him accordingly.