Overview

• Flagg told ESPN he’s “really excited” about being selected first overall by the Mavericks and starting his NBA career with his family beside him.
• His parents, Kelly and Ralph Flagg, both starred in college basketball—Kelly at the University of Maine and Ralph at Eastern Maine Community College—and have mentored him since childhood.
• The couple, married since the early 2000s, endured the loss of a newborn twin and a 109-day NICU stay for their son Hunter before welcoming Cooper and his surviving twin, Ace, in December 2006.
• Twin brother Ace will begin his own Division I career at the University of Maine this fall, while older brother Hunter studies sports management there.
• Kelly Flagg’s enthusiastic outburst during the March ACC Tournament went viral and prompted her to apologize for her language in a celebratory moment.