Cooper Flagg in Wizards? An US expert already conquered: “Imagine it with Sarr and Coulibaly”

By Pierre-Andréa Fraile | Sports journalist

Always promised to the status of choice n ° 1 of the Draft 2025, Cooper Flagg does not yet know which team will have the opportunity to select it in this position. An American analyst saliva already at the idea of ​​seeing him disembark … at Wizards.

For the time being, his presence at the Barclays Center on June 25 remains of the order of the supposition. Cooper Flagg has not still officially registered with the draft and lets doubt his real intentions. Some are indeed afraid to see him perform a second season on the NCAA parquet floors, even if he recently made it clear thatA future in the NBA also has something to try it.

While waiting to know more about it, the various experts agree that the status of 1st choice could not escape him. His performances under the colors of Duke have indeed appealed to the entire league, and even more the teams likely to get their hands on him this summer. Among them, Washington, who has 14% chance of inheriting the First Pick during the traditional Lottery.

The potential Trio Coulibaly-Flagg-Sarr is already emulated in the US

After a new season concluded with a pitiful assessment (18-64), the Wizards hope to touch the jackpot in the draft. The prospect of integrating Flagg into their workforce is necessarily enough to put water in the mouth, but not only. Kenny Beecham would also like to see the American prodigy settle in DC and this, especially for his possible association with Alex Sarr and Bilal Coulibaly. He explains in his podcast Small Ball :

Kenny Beecham : Objectively, I would like to see him land in Wizards. I find that he would be well there. Imagine what their defense could look like in hot moments with him, Sarr, Coulibaly and (Kyshawn) George, whom I really see becoming a great player on the defensive level … I don't know what it might look in attack, but I really like this from a defensive point of view.

Although the unconditional fan of Bulls, Beecham believes that the Wiz 'represent the ideal fall point for Flagg. It is it for any case to note that his opinion is far from being unanimous in the environment. Former member of the franchise, Austin Rivers hopes on the contrary in his podcast Off Guard that the young American winger will not follow his traces and will remain far from the capital:

Austin Rivers : No question of seeing him land at DC we cannot let it happen. It can't happen. I would be so reassembled if it happened. People say the same thing about Charlotte, but it would bother me less than it ends there. (…) I just think that DC does not have enough good players, except perhaps Sarr who is not bad and one or two others.

If he would not spit on the improbable scenario that would see him join the Bulls, Kenny Beecham considers Wizards as the perfect team for Cooper Flagg. There is no doubt that the latter would shine alongside our French Alex Sarr and Bilal Coulibaly.