
Dallas Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg‘s favorite basketball player of all time isn’t Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant or LeBron James. It’s Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird. Flagg recently met Bird for the first time and the Duke product told Malika Andrews of ESPN that he was nervous. “I was definitely nervous,” Flagg said. “I would say I haven’t been shell-shocked a lot in my life.
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