Cooper Flagg Should Turn Down NBA Draft & Stay At Duke, Larry Johnson Says

If Larry Johnson had been in Cooper Flagg‘s large Blue Satan sneakers, he tells TMZ Sports activities he’d forgo the NBA for yet one more 12 months … and keep put in Durham.

Flagg, in fact, is the prohibitive favourite to go on the high of this 12 months’s draft … however Johnson made it clear to us he’d wish to see the 18-year-old cling round Duke a bit longer.

The School Basketball Corridor of Famer stated the additional 12 months of ACC ball would assist Flagg tremendously in the long term … despite the fact that he is aware of it might be troublesome for {the teenager} to postpone his professional profession one other 12 or so months.

“It is powerful to show down that cash when you realize you are going to be No. 1,” he stated, however “to return to Duke and spend yet one more 12 months, simply get them expertise collectively a bit of bit extra — I feel that might be a fairly good concept.”

Flagg’s had a heck of a season thus far with the Blue Devils — he and his teammates are taking part in for a spot within the nationwide championship later Saturday — and nearly each NBA draft pundit believes he is on the precipice of an enormous rookie season. However Johnson is aware of a factor or two about staying some time longer in faculty — he opted for yet one more season at UNLV earlier than changing into the 1991 No. 1 general decide, and he says he does not remorse it in any respect.

“Heck no,” he instructed us.