NBA executives embarrassingly eat crow as awful Cooper Flagg take backfires

Dallas Mavericks, Cooper Flagg | Kevin Jairaj-Imagn ImagesCooper Flagg is playing like one of the best 18-year-old rookies that this league has ever seen, and all of his doubters are being forced to watch from the sidelines as he dominates game after game. Some of his biggest doubters came in the form of anonymous NBA executives, and they are eating crow thanks to how well Flagg is playing this season.

Last month, Kevin O'Connor of Yahoo Sports reported that some NBA executives believed that Flagg would go third at best in the 2026 NBA Draft if he hadn't reclassified and gone to Duke last season. Flagg was supposed to be a senior in high school last season, but he reclassified and became a…