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If Cooper Flagg Declared for the NBA project, it will immediately be a favorite, which will be the first overall choice.

However Flagg said he wanted to come back and Last top choice He wants him to do that.

Larry Johnson, the first overall choice of the 1991 NBA project, said the flags should remain “another year” in the Duke.

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The Duke’s Forward of the Blue Devils Cooper Flag cut the net after winning the 2025 Championship game against Cardinals Louisville in Spectrum Center. (Jim Dedmon/Imagn Image)

“It’s hard to give up this money if you know that you will be # 1, but it is in a great program, the Duke,” said Johnson TMZ Sports.

“To go back to the Duke and spend another year, just collect them a little more.

Johnson also rejected the idea that the flags risked injury when he stayed in college, which could affect his project.

“You can injure anything,” he said.

Johnson had the opportunity to go on a high note. After winning the National Championship with UNLV in 1990, he went to the NBA, but returned another year.

Duke’s Forward Blue Devils Cooper Flags responds in the second half in Dina E. Smith. (Bob Dannan / Imagn Images)

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Returning over the older year, he did not change his way very much. Next season, he still went first to Charlotte Sherny.

Despite the fact that his rebels lost in the finals of the fourth in the final of the season with the team, Johson did not regret.

“Damn,” he said.

In February the flags said he “Want (ed) come back” To the Duke.

“I want to go back next year,” the freshman said. “I still feel like a child. This is the only way I knew at college. That’s how I see it. I really didn’t know how the kids felt before, and if it feels different if it feels more like being a professional. I mean it for children in high school.”

In the second half against North Carolina, North Carolina in Darem, North Carolina, on January 27, 2025 in North Carolina in Darem, the North Kingdom of Duke, in Darem, the North Kingdom. (AP Photo/Ben McKeown)

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Flagg and Blue Devils will take over Houston in the final four on Saturday at 8:49 pm at the San -Antonio.

The flags, which returned from the ankle injury, which he received in the ACS tournament, averages 19.5 points, 7.8 rebounds and 5.3 broadcasts at the tournament, what he posted in the regular season.

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