Chris Broussard on Cooper Flagg: ‘I Love to See a White American Superstar’

Many heralded Dallas Mavericks rookie as the “Great White Hope” when he entered the NBA, and, for longtime NBA reporter Chris Boussard, he agrees.

Fresh off a weekend where Flagg, 19, became the first teenager in NBA history to score 50 points in a single game, Broussard joined FS1’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd to discuss not only the rookie’s tremendous play, but also his impact on the league as a white superstar at a time when there are precious few.

“I was saying years ago, I would love to see a white American superstar in the NBA…Cooper Flagg is a great white American player, and he is going to be a superstar. That’s great to see, I think it’s just good for the league,” Broussard said.

To be clear, there have been multiple star-level, even MVP-level white players in the league in recent years – Luka Doncic and Nikola