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    Manziel's Final Four Blunder

    Johnny Manziel blows his vow to be low key at Final Four: Another ridiculous NFL red flag?

    Chris Baldwin
    Apr 7, 2014 | 7:28 am

    Johnny Manziel wears a baseball cap pulled low. Maybe he thinks that will be enough to help him stay incognito. Okay, Manziel knows better.

     

     Johnny Football can't hide. Not in plain sight of 80,000 sports fans and hundreds of cameras.

     

    Drake giving you a shoulder rub probably doesn't help the whole under-the-radar thing. The burly bodyguard shadowing you also might be a slight giveaway.

     

    Not that there's any real reason for Manziel to try and stay out of sight — or at least mind — at the North Texas Final Four. Except that he's been promising NFL teams that he's 100 percent committed to football and has little use for the limelight. No, he's not a long-lost male Kardashian with an almost pathological need for attention, Manziel insists.

     

     

      Drake giving you a shoulder rub probably doesn't help the whole under-the-radar thing. The burly bodyguard also might be a slight giveaway.

     
     

    "If I'm not in the neighborhood, and I'm in the house, nothing can be said about me," he actually said during his pre-draft media blitz.

     

    Maybe, Jerry World is now Manziel's House?

     

    This whole homebody thing is a farce Manziel only needs to maintain until an NFL team selects him in prime time on May 8 — with Manziel hoping it's the Houston Texans with the No. 1 overall pick. For the most part, he's done a good job of keeping his no-flashy-celebrity-stuff vow.

     

    He's sworn off those club pictures where he's inevitably surrounded by a a bevy of wannabe Paris Hiltons. He's forsaken Twitter.

     

    The lure of the Final Four in one of his favorite stadiums proved to be too much to resist, however. Especially when an invite came from Jerry Jones to hobnob in the Dallas Cowboy tycoon's suite.

     

    Jerry Jones' suite may not be at the same level as Jerry Buss' Forum Club during the giddy, party paradise 1980s heyday of the Showtime Lakers. But it's still captured plenty of modern-day imaginations.

     

    "It'd be cool to check out," Kentucky guard Andrew Harrison muses in the wake of the Wildcats' last-second 74-73 win over Wisconsin, one of the most thrilling Final Four games of all time.

     

    Johnny Manziel checked it out and ended up getting shown on the famously mammoth scoreboard that represents many spectators in the stadium's best view of the basketball — and the celebrity games too. Manziel is seated next to a hot blonde of course.

     

    It's one of the hazards of the business.

     

     Johnny Football double standard
    Surely, NFL teams can't hold this team up against Manziel though. Heck, Jerry Jones' people invited him.

     
     

      It's high time Johnny Football dropped the charade of wanting to go unnoticed. He protests too much.

     
     

    Plus, NFL luminaries present and past could be found all around AT&T Stadium. There's Tony Dorsett, Russell Wilson and J.J. Watt.

     

    Held in Jerry's palace, this Final Four almost seems like an officially endorsed NFL event. Right down to the $75 parking.

     

    Think again. No, Johnny Football's not getting the deserved pardon.

     

    The furor and fascination with Manziel is so strong that even something as innocent as a Final Four night is parsed and examined. Certain franchises would kill to have a crossover attention-grabber like Manziel. Other more conservative organizations that should embrace such publicity seem committed to firmly standing in the past, unaccepting of any message that's not the club's message.

     

    It's ridiculous to hold something as completely unthreatening as a high-profile Final Four night out against Manziel. But some team executives no doubt see the reports of Manziel dominating another round of celebrity sightings as another sign of an obsession with sticking out.

     

    At least Manziel is putting football before the national championship game between Kentucky and UConn, a clash of power programs masquerading as underdogs. Johnny Football can't be there on Monday night.

     

    He has a job interview to attend. Manziel jetted off to California Sunday to spend the next few days with the Oakland Raiders. The Raiders are a franchise that just traded for high-priced Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub. But this is also a team that loves the celebrity star — one that holds the fifth overall pick in the NFL draft.

     

    Oakland coach Dennis Allen may ask Manziel for tips on getting a Final Four inner-sanctum VIP experience.

     

    Manziel politely declined requests for interviews in Jerry World. He seemed chagrined when his mug showed up on that giant screen and not just because of the boos Dallas fans showered him with. He came across as more flattered when the mom of Kentucky star Julius Randle corralled him as he moved by with his entourage, but still a little dismayed at the cameras clicking away during their quick chat.

     

    It's high time Johnny Football dropped the charade of wanting to go unnoticed. He protests too much.

     

    Manziel should embrace his inner diva — and only worry about those who appreciate the show.

    Johnny Manziel didn't exactly make a low-key entrance in this Final Four Saturday night. Even the mom of Kentucky star Julius Randle felt compelled to stop Johnny Football.

    Johnny Manziel at Final Four
      
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    Johnny Manziel didn't exactly make a low-key entrance in this Final Four Saturday night. Even the mom of Kentucky star Julius Randle felt compelled to stop Johnny Football.
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    Cooper Flagg is the new Maine man for the Dallas Mavericks

    Associated Press
    Jun 26, 2025 | 8:55 am
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    Cooper Flagg, newest Dallas Mavericks pick

    Cooper Flagg is the new Maine man in Dallas. The Mavericks took the Duke forward with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft on June 25, hoping they have found their next franchise superstar less than five months after trading one away.

    Mavericks fans were furious when Dallas traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers on February 1, some immediately threatening to end their support of the team.

    But the ones who stuck around may quickly love Flagg, the college player of the year who averaged 19.2 points and 7.5 rebounds while leading Duke to the Final Four. The Mavericks quickly announced that Flagg would wear No. 32 in Dallas, where fellow Duke products Kyrie Irving and Dereck Lively II are on the roster.

    “I’m really excited. I think I keep saying I’m excited to be a sponge, to get down there and just learn, be surrounded by Hall of Fame-caliber guys and just to be able to learn from them,” Flagg said. “It’s going to be an incredible experience.”

    His selection — considered likely ever since Flagg showed off his considerable game last summer after being invited to the U.S. Olympic team's training camp — was a daylong celebration in his home state for the 18-year-old forward from Newport, Maine.

    “It means a lot to me to have the support of the whole state. I know how many people showed up today and supported me at some of the draft parties back home,” Flagg said. “It feels amazing knowing I can inspire younger kids. I was in their shoes really not that long ago, so just to know I can give those kids those feelings and have the whole state behind me, it means a lot.”

     Cooper Flagg Basketball up-and-comer Cooper FlaggGetty Images

    The backstory
    Dallas Mavericks CEO Rick Welts wasn't thinking even for a second about Cooper Flagg when he started a staff meeting before the draft lottery by saying the club was entering the most important offseason in franchise history.

    The longtime NBA executive and relatively new leader on the business side of the Mavs was thinking about the lingering fallout of the widely reviled Luka Doncic trade, not the club turning a 1.8% chance into winning the rights to draft the teenaged star from Duke.

    “Never, ever did anybody in our organization ever even say what would happen if we win. That's a waste of time,” Welts told The Associated Press recently. “Like, it's unbelievable. It was hard to even get your head around.”

    The self-inflicted wounds were numerous after general manager Nico Harrison's stunning decision to send Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis in early February.

    Fans were incensed. Season-ticket holders were canceling. Potential new sponsors were telling Welts they'd have to think about it.
    Just like that, the Mavs had a vision to sell of a potential superstar who could someday be the face of the franchise — as Doncic was, and fellow European superstar Dirk Nowitzki before him. Just like that, despair turned to hope for plenty of people, including those under Welts who had spent weeks dealing with the wrath of a spurned fan base.

    Before the Doncic trade, Welts had already made a decision to raise season-ticket prices. He told the AP he had to back off on the size of the increase as he watched the visceral reaction unfold.

    Welts has seen plenty in nearly 50 years with the NBA, including time in the league office and stints with Phoenix and Golden State. That's not to say the Doncic fallout didn't have a profound impact on the 72-year-old Welts, who had come out of retirement to replace Cynt Marshall just a month and a half earlier. It just means he has weathered a few storms.

    And now the Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer isn't so sure he's ever seen the sun come back out so quickly.

    “The thing that I learned through all of this experience was what I knew was like this amazing emotional tie between this team and these fans was even stronger than I think anybody who hadn’t lived here and been a part of it could ever imagine,” Welts said. “Just the outpouring of pure joy and the idea of a generational player that could change our fortunes for the next 15 years would land with us by pure luck.”

    Part of what made the Doncic deal so hard to believe was unloading a 25-year-old superstar in his prime nine months after leading Dallas to the NBA Finals for the first time in 13 years. The Mavs lost to Boston in five games last June.

    Harrison's reasoning was prioritizing defense, and his belief that Davis and Irving were a good enough tandem to keep Dallas as a championship contender. Flagg's potential gave that notion a boost.

    “I feel like I’m a broken record, but the team that we intended to put on the floor, which you guys saw for 2 1/2 quarters, that’s a championship-caliber team,” Harrison said. “And so you might not like it, but that’s the fact, it is.”

    Welts, who believes the Mavs have work to do to bring their basketball and business sides together, will spend plenty of time during the early days of the Flagg era sharing his vision for a new arena.

    It's a big reason Welts took the job, after spending seven years with Golden State on an arena plan that moved the Warriors across the bay to San Francisco from Oakland. He says all the talks are focused on keeping the team in Dallas.

    While the casino-centered Adelson and Dumont families of Las Vegas, in the middle of their second full year as owners of the Mavs, wanted gambling to be part of the formula for a new arena, the political realities in Texas have shifted the focus away from that idea for now.

    There's a new focus for Welts in what seems certain will be the final stop in an eventful NBA career: building everything around another potentially generational star after the Mavs jettisoned the one they had.

    “Don't make this sound like I'm suggesting that everyone is forgiven,” Welts said. “Luka will always be a big part of what this organization is. But for a large number of fans, it is a pathway — it's not a pathway, it's like a four-lane highway into being able to care about the Mavericks the way they cared about the Mavericks before.”

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