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The Duke basketball rookie sensation is posting some better metrics than each of the past five Naismith Award winners.
Former Duke teammates Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel were named their respective conference's Player of the Month for the second straight month.
Everyone who thought Cooper Flagg would not live up to the hype can start signing those apology forms. Former NBA champion Tony Allen already did. Allen
Cooper Flagg's rise from youth phenom to No. 1 overall draft pick to Mavericks' biggest weapon has been guided by the same man.
One of those players was former NBA-All Defense honoree and champion with the Boston Celtics, Tony Allen, who compared Flagg to Brent Barry and Andrei Kirilenko but admitted he underestimated the Maine native.