{"id":321521,"date":"2023-08-05T17:32:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T17:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=321521"},"modified":"2023-08-05T17:57:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T17:57:48","slug":"cooper-flagg-has-addressed-the-bradley-beal-brian-scalabrine-rumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=321521","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg has addressed the Bradley Beal\/Brian Scalabrine rumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Scalabrine, a former Celtics player and current team analyst, shared a rumor he heard that high school junior Cooper Flagg, who has an argument as the best prospect in the nation regardless of class, beat NBA all-star Bradley Beal during a 1-on-1 game at Jayson Tatum&#8217;s camp.<\/p>\n<p>It led the basketball discourse cycle for 24 hours, as tens of thousands of people liked and retweeted posts about it. <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/brad-beal-responds-to-rumor-that-cooper-flagg-beat-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beal himself commented<\/a> and said it didn&#8217;t happen. But still, some (apparently) wondered \u2014 was Beal lying to save face?<\/p>\n<p>Flagg has cleared the air altogether, telling Bleacher Report that not only was it &#8220;fake business,&#8221; he and Beal never played one-on-one.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Me and Brad Beal never played one-on-one. I got no beef with Brad.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Flagg sets the record straight<img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f4af.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udcaf\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cooper_Flagg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Cooper_Flagg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VxMmGSYAva\">pic.twitter.com\/VxMmGSYAva<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; B\/R Hoops (@brhoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brhoops\/status\/1687648880304050176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And that puts an end to the dumbest (and funniest) basketball story of the month. We love the NBA offseason!<\/p>\n<p>Scal, we&#8217;d love to hear who told you the rumor &#8230; it sounds like you may need a new source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Cooper Flagg took to the mic to tell Bleacher Report whether he beat Bradley Beal in one-on-one, as Brian Scalabrine reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321523,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321521\/revisions\/321523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}