Dallas Mavericks fans don’t really know Cooper Flagg.
At least not compared to the legions of fans in his home state of Maine, where he burst onto the scene as a freshman at Nokomis High School in Newport, Maine.
It was only three years ago, but that’s considerably more time than the month or so since the Mavericks selected Flagg with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, shifting their trajectory to build around a potential generational player.
Who better to help Dallas get to know Flagg than two reporters who’ve covered him since his lone season at Nokomis, when “a wall of hype” surrounded the phenom before he stepped on the court.
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“They were saying, we’ve not — the state — has never seen a player like this, never seen a player with the potential and the skill set that he has,” said Drew Bonifant, a sportswriter for the Portland Press Herald in Maine.
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Bonifant and colleague Travis Lazarczyk spoke with two Dallas Morning News reporters, Mavericks beat writer Mike Curtis and enterprise writer Brad Townsend, about their early memories of Flagg and what fans in Dallas have to look forward to his rookie season and beyond.
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