WEBVTT - WTF Rewind: Cooper Flagg

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<v Speaker 1>Break was breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines Lord

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<v Speaker 1>the association.

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<v Speaker 2>What the fuck is going on with the Cooper Flag?

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<v Speaker 2>With this Cooper Flag kit? Who is he? If you

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<v Speaker 2>don't know him? I don't blame you. I don't blame

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<v Speaker 2>you because it's you know, you're not in the recruiting cesspool.

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<v Speaker 2>You're not looking at YouTube highlights of the main White

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<v Speaker 2>Claws or where the fuck his team is. It's okay.

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<v Speaker 2>In eighteen months you'll know all about him. There's gonna

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<v Speaker 2>be a ton of outlets saying the Cooper Flags the

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<v Speaker 2>next best thing since sliced white wonderbread, six eight, sixteen

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<v Speaker 2>year old wing from Maine. Many people think is him?

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<v Speaker 2>Recruitment was a big deal. Where's he gonna go to school?

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<v Speaker 2>Where's gonna go to school? Wherever he landed? Was gonna

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<v Speaker 2>get the number one coveted recruiting class in college? Hoops?

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<v Speaker 2>Then I also mentioned that Cooper Flag was whitee of

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<v Speaker 2>course he's white. Of course his name is Cooper, his

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<v Speaker 2>first name is Cooper. I didn't have to tell you that, though,

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<v Speaker 2>did I let's be real, there's not a guy with

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<v Speaker 2>a first name Cooper that's ever been anything but white.

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<v Speaker 2>The only Coopers I know are either white or Golden Retrievers.

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<v Speaker 2>Those are the type of dogs that love the water.

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<v Speaker 2>We're not done, though. There hasn't been an American born

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<v Speaker 2>white player that has been selected number one since Kent

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<v Speaker 2>fucking Benson in nineteen seventy seven. Nope, you don't know him.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know him. I had to get into the

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<v Speaker 2>lab research. So pop quiz time number one hyped wing

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<v Speaker 2>white boy, best next thing, blah blah blah, gonna be

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<v Speaker 2>first overall in the NBA Draft. Where do you think

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<v Speaker 2>he decided to go to school? Think it was Grambling,

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<v Speaker 2>Think it was Kentucky. Thenk goes Louisville. You know where

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<v Speaker 2>the fuck Cooper Flag decided to go to school, don't you?

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<v Speaker 1>You know?

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<v Speaker 2>You know where he went to school. If you followed basketball,

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<v Speaker 2>you know you know. Say it. Just say it for me,

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<v Speaker 2>Just say it for me. It's Duke. You know there

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<v Speaker 2>was no other place on the planet Earth that he

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<v Speaker 2>could go other than Duke. The pipeline is intact even

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<v Speaker 2>after coach k. But that's not what the fuck moment.

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<v Speaker 2>Cooper Flag going to Duke was obvious, right, it's obvious.

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<v Speaker 2>But what the fuck started with the cover Slam where

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<v Speaker 2>Cooper Flag is right there, sitting there on the cover.

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<v Speaker 2>There's nothing untoward at first glance with it, right, it's like, oh, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>he's posing on the cover. He's got his little finger

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<v Speaker 2>in his jersey, like, oh yeah, what's up. I'm Cooper Flag,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to Duke. And then then you look at

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<v Speaker 2>the bottom and it says Cooper Flag pledges his allegiance

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<v Speaker 2>to the brotherhood Duke the brotherhood? What kind of brotherhood

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<v Speaker 2>are we talking about? Uh? What the fuck? Slam? What

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<v Speaker 2>the fuck? If that's not nothing for you to be like,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know about this? Go ahead, go over to

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<v Speaker 2>the Duke basketball Instagram page. Where do you find? You

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<v Speaker 2>find Cooper Flag standing in the dark with a pitchfork

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<v Speaker 2>in his hand. That's on fire, that's on fucking fire.

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<v Speaker 2>You can't make it up. You cannot make it up.

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<v Speaker 2>What the fuck, Duke? What are you doing? What is

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<v Speaker 2>happening right now? White player, dark gym, burning pitchfork? My

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<v Speaker 2>first question was who proved this? Who you run this through?

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<v Speaker 2>Who decided yes? What were the ideas you turned down.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like Cooper Flag holds a noose, like, what are

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<v Speaker 2>we doing? This is horrible, Like, we can't do that.

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<v Speaker 2>This is insane. This is literally insane. Do you guys

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<v Speaker 2>want to make Cooper Flag the most unpopular number one

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<v Speaker 2>pick we've seen. It's not Cooper Flag's fault either. I

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<v Speaker 2>like Cooper Flags. Like the first thing's like, oh, that's bad.

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<v Speaker 2>The second thing is like, oh, that's Charlottesville. Oh they

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<v Speaker 2>had to say, hey, Cooper, pose with your arm out,

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<v Speaker 2>why cause we're gonna photoshop you with a pitchfork that's

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<v Speaker 2>on fire. The whole thing's bizarre. It really is. This

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<v Speaker 2>is one of those things where he's gonna be like

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<v Speaker 2>in ten years from now. Yeah, like in hindsight, probably

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<v Speaker 2>not great, probably not an ideal, like entrance to the world.

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<v Speaker 2>Hopefully Cooper Flag doesn't get caught by any shrapnel. All

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<v Speaker 2>of that to say, what the fuck were they doing

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<v Speaker 2>with the Cooper Flag rollout