Cooper Flagg denies rumor of embarassing Bradley Beal at Jayson Tatum’s camp

This tale, it seems, was too good to be true.

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If the beef between rising NBA prospect Cooper Flagg and Phoenix Suns star Bradley Beal sounded a little bit too good to be true, there’s a reason. It might very well have been a made-up tale.

The reports grew out of a rumored embarrassment of Beal by Flagg during a one-on-one contest at star Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum’s summer basketball camp.

The rumor took on a life of its own on social media, prompting Flagg to come clean about it in a video circulated by Bleacher Report Hoops. In it, he said “I’m making enemies, first Brad Beal — that was fake though; pointing it out the mic, that was fake, fake business.”

“Me and Brad Beal never played one-on-one, I’ve got no beef with Brad, alright?” he added for good measure, pushing back against the colorful rumor making the rounds in an offseason NBA media sphere thirsty for content.

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