Cooper Flagg's mom says viral celebration was 'big F-you' to UNC fans for 'being classless a-holes'

Cooper Flagg's ma is heavy into the longtime Duke-UNC rivalry.

Duke completed their expanse of the regular-season bid implicit their arch rivals with an 82-69 triumph successful Chapel Hill connected Saturday, wherever Flagg dropped 15 points, grabbed 9 rebounds, and handed retired six assists.

One play successful peculiar coiled up being a viral infinitesimal for Flagg's mother, Kelly.

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In the closing moments of the game, Flagg dribbled by defenders from astir fractional tribunal each the mode to a thunderous two-handed slam. Kelly deed the assemblage with the "head top" celebration, tapping the apical of her caput and screaming, "On his f---ing head!"

The infinitesimal rapidly went viral, and Kelly addressed it successful a Facebook post, jokingly thanking those who were "willing to commencement a" GoFundMe and "ready to thrust astatine dawn."

Kelly apologized to "anyone who was offended by my connection that was caught successful a celebratory moment," admitting that it "wasn't my champion look."

"However, if you really cognize maine and are a existent person of excavation you weren't shocked," she added with a laughing emoji. 

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But then, she added wherefore the emotions came out, and it was seemingly owed to the "crudeness" of UNC fans astatine the game.

"It was a precise aggravated concern we were enactment into and we were taken aback by the crudeness of the UNC fans arsenic we made our mode into the arena. They continued to harrass [sic] with overmuch worse being spewed successful our absorption arsenic good arsenic astatine our 18 twelvemonth aged lad and his teammates passim the entirety of the game," Kelly wrote.

"The solemnisation was a infinitesimal of being truthful arrogant of our kid and Laos a large F-you to the full Carolina instrumentality basal for being classless a-holes. If you are a UNC instrumentality and didn't similar it…tough [poop emoji]. Better luck adjacent time! Go Duke."

In the regular season, Flagg averaged 19.4 points, 7.6 rebounds, and 4.2 assists en way to the Blue Devils finishing the play arsenic the top-ranked squad successful the country.

They volition present spell for an ACC rubric earlier heading to March Madness.

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