{"id":877408,"date":"2026-11-06T09:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/877408\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T09:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:42:22","slug":"big-bad-wolf-mavs-legend-derek-harper-has-just-made-a-prediction-about-cooper-flagg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/877408\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Big bad wolf\u2019: Mavs legend Derek Harper has just made a prediction about Cooper Flagg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Flagg is one of the most exciting names in basketball right now.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager won the Rookie of the Year award following a sensational season with the Dallas Mavericks last year, and he has gone up a level in this campaign. <\/p>\n<p>Mavs legend Derek Harper has now had his say on young Flagg. <\/p>\n<p>Derek Harper says Cooper Flagg will become one of the best players ever<\/p>\n<p>Despite being just 19 years of age, Flagg is already regarded as one of the most complete players in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavs youngster can do almost everything, and the fact that he is still a teenager means he will only get better in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>That is why Harper believes Flagg will go on to become one of the greats of the game. He has also claimed that the teen is hiding his personality, almost like a wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing, because of his age.<\/p>\n<p>He said on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SiriusXMNBA\/status\/2118479472521314478?a=fA4nZyVvzqU0-fOO9vc&amp;s=20\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">SiriusXM NBA Radio<\/a>: \u201cJust playing the game he plays now, he will be one of the best ever players. And I don\u2019t think I\u2019m exaggerating when I say that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg is one of the most exciting names in basketball right now. The teenager won the Rookie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,6],"class_list":["post-877408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-mavericks","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117568847396749262","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}