ESPN Host Taking Heat For 'Racist' Cooper Flagg Prediction

ESPN Host Taking Heat For 'Racist' Cooper Flagg Prediction

Meet The Soccer Star Girlfriend Of Cooper Flagg (1:24) Cooper Flagg has proven over the past year that he has undeniable talent, and yet, some analysts believe it's his race that'll actually help him become a superstar in the NBA.During his freshman season at Duke, the Wooden Award winner averaged 19.4 points, 7.5 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.4 blocks and 1.4 steals per game. The Dallas Mavericks didn't have to think twice when it came to selecting …

ESPN Already Trying To Recreate Caitlin Clark Race Drama With Cooper Flagg

Cooper Flagg is the first American-born white player drafted first overall in the NBA since Kent Benson in 1977. He is already the most popular American-born white male basketball player since Larry Bird. Thus, ESPN hopes to stoke the same type of racial tensions around Flagg that it did Caitlin Clark.On Friday, ESPN contributor Peter Rosenberg proactively accused American sports fans of having an interest in Flagg because he is white."Cooper Fl…

"This Is Just Blatant Racism": Everyone Is Blasting ESPN Host For His Shady Comments About Cooper Flagg

Cooper Flagg (Photo By Brad Penner-Imagn Images) Cooper Flagg hasn’t even laced up for his first NBA game, and yet he’s already the center of a firestorm that has nothing to do with his jump shot or highlight reels. Instead, it’s a comment that has ignited one of the most heated debates in sports media right now. On Friday’s episode of ESPN’s First Take, radio host Peter Rosenberg made a bold and polarizing claim that the Duke phenom’s race coul…

Can Cooper Flagg and Caitlin Clark Save American Basketball?

Peter Rosenberg hit the ESPN “First Take” screen and didn’t waste any time ticking off the NBA fans who live to keep race and politics out of sports. Most of the time those fans are white men who fail to accept the drastic cultural difference in experiences that they have from more melananted folk. However, there are often people who have the complexion for the protection, who point out these racial differences and white privileges that occur in…

Peter Rosenberg makes Cooper Flagg, Caitlin Clark comparison

To be clear, Peter Rosenberg doesn’t think that Cooper Flagg’s impact on the NBA will be similar to the one that Caitlin Clark has already made in the WNBA. That, however, didn’t stop the ESPN personality from invoking the reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year during a debate involving the Dallas Mavericks on Friday’s episode of First Take. The conversation began with host Molly Qerim replaying a statement Tim MacMahon made on Thursday, in which the …