Cooper Flagg’s mom, Kelly, can be seen in the crowd at Duke games, eagerly cheering on her son. She made waves in March after calling out UNC fans in Chapel Hill as “classless a-holes.”
On Thursday, the superstar’s mom shared the key ingredient to beating Flagg one-on-one: just be taller and stronger. Keep reading to see what she had to say about their history facing off on the court.
Cooper Flagg Never Beat His Mom in a 1v1
Kelly sat down with CBS Sports College Basketball to discuss Cooper Flagg ahead of Saturday’s big Final Four showdown between Duke and Houston.
She also shared an interesting piece of information: she’s undefeated against Cooper.
Cooper Flagg’s mom, Kelly, tells a fun story about how he has never beat her 1v1 and how their final game ended. pic.twitter.com/e3jN3QAPP5
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“Cooper and I used to have some battles in the driveway, and he has never beat me. My strategy was that he was 10 years old and I outweighed him by a significant amount and was taller than him back then, so I would just back him down and bully him. The beginning of the year of 6th grade, they were only about 5’8”, I’m 5’9.5” 5’10”, so I was still taller than him. And about two months in, suddenly we were eye to eye and then by the end of 6th grade he was 6’2”.
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“We were playing in the driveway, our last game ever, and I believe the score was nine to eight, nine to seven. I might have been behind at that point, but I made this great crossover move at the foul line; I took him left, I did a little jump stop, I did a little up fake, he went for it, and I was about to score so easily on him, and get fouled, and I felt something in my knee that was not quite right and I tore my meniscus, and I was unable to play from that day forward, I just, my knees are not the same, and so we ended the game, and unfortunately for him, he never beat me.”
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