“The basketball gods smiled upon us when we got Cooper.”
Mark Cuban on landing Cooper Flagg. (via Network)“The basketball gods smiled upon us when we got Cooper.”
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…do you think there’s, like, God gave Dallas a bit of a mulligan potentially with Cooper Flagg?
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It felt like that.
Patrick Ewing coming to the Knicks in, in ’85, just something that obviously, like, wasn’t planned, but if I’m a Dallas fan, I, I could sleep a little bit better at night.
I mean, all fans really want is hope, the hope that we’re gonna be a good team, the hope that something special could be put together.
The basketball gods smiled upon us when we got Cooper, and the kid’s just amazing.
Ev- everything You know, I’ve met him, talked to him, dealt with the people around him.
Everybody just loves him to death, and, you know, the best part is he’s all basketball and a little bit of golf, and that’s all he cares about.
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He’s, he’s not doing anything.
He’s just all about basketball, and he’s 18 years old.
My middle daughter is going away to college, and she’s a few months older than him.
It’s hard to comprehend that this 18-year-old is, the hope of a franchise, just like when we got Luka, the hope of a franchise.