While the Dallas Mavericks struggled in 2025 with trading away Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers and being eliminated in the Play-In Tournament by the Memphis Grizzlies, one college basketball player took the world by storm and is poised to change everything for Dallas. That was Duke's Cooper Flagg.
Flagg's one season at Duke helped him deserve the hype of being the first overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. Heading into the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery, the Mavericks had a 1.8 percent chance to win it, in order to get the first pick to draft Flagg.