Cooper Flagg can’t escape the ghost of the Great White Hope | Lee Escobedo ⊕⊕
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From Jack Johnson to Larry Bird, American sport has grappled with the racial myth of the Great White Hope. Now the Mavericks’ new phenom, 18-year-old Cooper Flagg, inherits the mantle – whether he wa…