LA Rams star WR Cooper Kupp once dominated Chicago Bulls star SG Zach Lavine in a High School Basketball Championship Game


LA Rams star WR Cooper Kupp once dominated Chicago Bulls star SG Zach Lavine in a High School Basketball Championship Game

Cooper Kupp and Zach Lavine

Cooper Kupp has had a tremendous season so far for the Los Angeles Rams and has been by far the best wide receiver in the league this season. His performances have helped the Rams to reach the NFC Championship Game where they will play the San Francisco 49ers.

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Cooper Kupp is a Pro Bowl Wide Receiver this season and has led the league in all the categories for a WR which displays the quality of the performances that he has had throughout the season with the help of his quarterback Matthew Stafford.

Cooper Kupp and Matthew Stafford

Zach Lavine on the other hand has had a tremendous season so far and will be an All-Star again this season after getting selected for the first time last season. His performances along with the likes of DeMar DeRozan and Lonzo Ball had led the Chicago Bulls to the No. 1 seed in the East before injuries piled up on their team which made Lavine miss several games, Lonzo is also out for the foreseeable future and Alex Caruso’s hand is fractured which has effected their team’s performance.

In a strange turn of events, It is revealed that during their High-School days Zach Lavine and Cooper Kupp faced off against each other in the championship game in which surprisingly the NFL starlet dominated the NBA starlet and led his team to the victory against Lavine’s team.

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Cooper Kupp shut down Zach Lavine in the first half of the championship game during High School

Cooper Kupp and Zach Lavine

Cooper Kupp was a multisport athlete during his high school days and was good at basketball also, as he himself grew up in Washington same as Zach Lavine the duo were bound to come up against each other at some point in time.

This happened during a championship game between the Davis Pirates and the Bothell Cougars in which Kupp’s team(Pirates) won by a huge margin of 34 points in which the Rams WR was guarding the future NBA All-Star and held him to just 4 points in the first half of the game while himself having a great game in which he shot for 9-11 from the field and finished with 19 points paving the way for his team’s victory.

Zach Lavine

Zach Lavine since being drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves from UCLA has been on an upward trajectory every season and his trade to the Chicago Bulls was certainly a positive for his career as he is now their Franchise Player who is leading them every season and now with the help of other great players like DeMar DeRozan, Lonzo Ball and Nikola Vucevic he can lead this team to newer hights.

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