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Cade Cunningham is Simply the Firstfruits of Mike Boynton’s Toil

We saw his staged reaction, what do you think his actual one was like? Was it a holler and a fist pump just like the video? Or was it a more subtle sigh of relief? Knowing what we know about Mike Boynton, he probably nodded, fired up the jet and set off to recruit somebody for the Class of 2028.

Cade Cunningham did not need to commit to play his 35 games of college basketball at Oklahoma State to justify the Boynton hire as Oklahoma State’s men’s basketball coach. No single recruit — even one as capable as Cunningham — holds that power.