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Cooper Flagg thinks this is the best NBA team ever

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Despite being born in December 2006, future NBA lottery pick Cooper Flagg has a lot of respect for basketball legends that retired way before he could see them live.

In interviews with GQ Sports and SLAM Magazine earlier this month, the 17-year-old Newport native called Michael Jordan the greatest basketball player of all time, and said the 1985-86 Celtics was the greatest basketball team of all time.

“We’d have a couple-hour drive for AAU tournaments and our little Chrysler van had a movie projector that would come down the middle and we’d pop in ‘85-86 Celtics the whole championship run and watch game by game, playing the whole thing over and over again,” Flagg told CBS Sports in a July 12 article.

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