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Grades will be handed out and opinions will be spouted, but nobody really knows how the 2025 draft class will pan out until games actually start to matter in the fall.
The difference this year is that the categories have changed. There are the usual winners and losers, but there’s also a third category: Flagg-ed
That’s what Cooper Flagg does for an organization. He gives it its own designation. The Mavericks didn’t just win — that’s underselling what happened in the first round Wednesday. They definitely didn’t lose or anything close to it.
They simply Flagg-ed.