{"id":382972,"date":"2024-04-09T01:04:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=382972"},"modified":"2024-04-09T02:02:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T02:02:11","slug":"these-cooper-dejean-basketball-highlights-from-high-school-are-otherworldly-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=382972","title":{"rendered":"These Cooper DeJean basketball highlights from high school are otherworldly good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper DeJean might have made Mac McClung&#8217;s high school mixtape look rather ordinary. Turns out that DeJean was a true playmaker not just on the gridiron but also on the basketball court.<\/p>\n<p>And while that is a bit of a stretch, given that McClung&#8217;s h<a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/just-a-reminder-that-mac-mcclungs-high-school-mixtape-was-electric\">ighlights from high school were surreal<\/a>, this flashback to DeJean&#8217;s high school days underscores what a special athlete the future NFL defensive back was and is.<\/p>\n<p>DeJean is coming off three seasons at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com\/\">Iowa<\/a> where he developed into one of the nation&#8217;s top defensive back prospects. There is a very strong chance that he is a first-round pick in this month&#8217;s NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>Electric as a cornerback and a punt returner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/4682618\/cooper-dejean\">DeJean had 41 total tackles and five passes defended<\/a> his senior season. Now, he heads to the NFL draft in a couple of weeks as a consensus top 50 selection.<\/p>\n<p>His playmaker ability was evident on the basketball court for Battle Creek-Ida Grove (Ida Grove, Iowa). Check out these highlights from high school:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cooper DeJean high school basketball highlights go crazy <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f3c0.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udfc0\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f3a5.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udfa5\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CourtsideFilms?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CourtsideFilms<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iSrXhb8az2\">pic.twitter.com\/iSrXhb8az2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NMqatOI3xp\">https:\/\/t.co\/NMqatOI3xp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The 33rd Team (@The33rdTeamFB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The33rdTeamFB\/status\/1777352420734972281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(h\/t to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the33rdteam.com\/\">the 33rd Team<\/a>, which is a tremendous site covering the NFL)<\/p>\n<p>In high school, De Jean was a four-star recruit and the No. 149 player in the nation according <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/recruitment\/cooper-dejean-133818\/recruitinterests\/\">to 247Sports in the 2021 class<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa and Iowa State were his only reported Power Five offers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Cooper DeJean was a tremendous high school basketball player.<\/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\/382972"}],"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=382972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382974,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382972\/revisions\/382974"}],"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=382972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}