{"id":436984,"date":"2025-04-07T16:08:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=436984"},"modified":"2025-04-07T16:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:08:36","slug":"cooper-flagg-nba-is-a-dream-of-mine-after-blur-of-freshman-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cooper-flagg-nba-is-a-dream-of-mine-after-blur-of-freshman-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg: \u201cNBA is a dream of mine\u201d after blur of freshman year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"979\" data-end=\"1413\"><strong data-start=\"992\" data-end=\"1008\">Cooper Flagg<\/strong> capped off his freshman season at <strong data-start=\"1043\" data-end=\"1051\">Duke<\/strong> by winning the <strong data-start=\"1067\" data-end=\"1085\">Naismith Award<\/strong>, adding to his Wooden and AP Player of the Year honors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"979\" data-end=\"1413\">\u201cThis whole year has been a blur,\u201d Flagg said. He hasn\u2019t declared for the <strong data-start=\"1216\" data-end=\"1229\">NBA Draft<\/strong> yet but is projected as the <strong data-start=\"1258\" data-end=\"1272\">No. 1 pick<\/strong>, with ESPN comparing him to stars like <strong data-start=\"1312\" data-end=\"1321\">Tatum<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1326\" data-end=\"1336\">Pippen<\/strong>. \u201cPlaying in the NBA would be a blessing \u2014 it\u2019s a dream of mine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1415\" data-end=\"1445\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/sports\/2025\/04\/cooper-flagg-says-freshman-season-was-a-blur-nba-is-a-dream-of-mine.html\"><em data-start=\"1415\" data-end=\"1443\">Source: NJ Advance Media<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke star wins Naismith Award and is expected to declare for the NBA Draft as the projected No. 1 pick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":424356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-436984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/cooper-flagg-knueppel-duke.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436984"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=436984"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=436984"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=436984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}