Yahoo Sports senior NBA analyst Kevin O’Connor and contributing NBA writer Tom Haberstroh preview Monday’s NBA draft lottery and discuss which team with the best odds of landing the number one overall pick could use the Duke star the most on their squad. Hear the full conversation on “The Kevin O’Connor Show” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Monday night in Chicago, little lottery balls are gonna be bouncing around in a in a locked up room with a representative from every team and media members, all of them praying to the basketball gods for the opportunity to draft Cooper flag between Utah, Washington, and Chart.
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The three teams that had below 20 wins, and the 3 teams with 14% flattened odds for a chance at the number one pick of the Jazz, the Wizards, and the Hornets, who needs Cooper flag the most?
I know I’m biased because I’m a resident of Charlotte, North Carolina, but they haven’t won a playoff series since 2002.
They’ve never been to the Eastern Conference Finals.
This is a franchise that has never, has never had a guy like this.
They’ve missed out on so many number one overall picks in huge years, and this is a franchise with new ownership, new front office, new head coach, and you get the guy from Duke down the street.
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I know there would be some weird vibes here in Charlotte.
Which is predominantly UNC Chapel Hill, but Cooper flag is the real deal.
Everything that we’ve seen from Cooper Flag, this dude does not have any holes in his game.
Is Cooper Flagg gonna be needed anywhere else more than he is in the Charlotte Hornets franchise?
I would say no, given the how bankrupt the, the, the win calms and any sort of playoff successes for this franchise.
It’s Cooper flag in Charlotte, that’s the biggest name.
Washington trended up this past year.
They have some good things going on there.
Utah has a ton of young talent already.
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To me, Charlotte is the right answer for the franchise that needs him the most.
I I think you’re right, Tom.
I don’t think you’re being biased here.
I do think it’s Charlotte.
They’re the team with the most questions as well when it comes to kind of their young star, Lamelo’s already getting it paid as well.
There’s questions about his future, how reliable he can be.
Is that contract gonna be something they want to keep moving forward?
They really, really need a stabilizing force and not to mention for them, you can look at the good things in Charlotte.
You can look at Brandon Miller, you can look at if you do view view Lamela ball as a positive, neither of those guys are leaders.
They’re they’re just not.
They, they might be good ball players, but they’re not leaders of a locker room.
That’s what Cooper Flag is.