{"id":673333,"date":"2026-05-15T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/673333\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:51:09","slug":"cooper-flagg-and-arianna-robersons-kissing-moment-goes-public-heres-what-it-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/673333\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg and Arianna Roberson\u2019s kissing moment goes public \u2014 here\u2019s what it means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nba\/dallas-mavericks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> forward Cooper Flagg recently updated the public on his personal life through his official channels. The announcement confirms long-standing rumors about his connection to another top athlete.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg and Duke women\u2019s basketball star Arianna Roberson have officially confirmed their relationship on social media. This big confirmation follows weeks of continuous romance rumors surrounding the 2026 NBA Rookie of the Year and the current Blue Devils center.<\/p>\n<p>The exciting romance rumors initially sparked back in April 2026 when Roberson attended Flagg\u2019s major NBA Rookie of the Year press conference and sat directly alongside his supportive family.<\/p>\n<p>In early May 2026, the two basketball players fueled heavy speculation by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/2053139343452344614\" rel=\"nofollow\">posting<\/a> separate, nearly identical photos from Noah&#8217;s Ark Beach Club in Turks and Caicos on the very same day.<\/p>\n<p>On May 15, 2026, Roberson <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.essentiallysports.com\/nba-active-basketball-news-cooper-flagg-makes-relationship-with-arianna-roberson-public-after-duke-star-s-viral-vacation-video\/#:~:text=Roberson%2C%20the%20sister,rumors%20were%20true.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">published a viral vacation TikTok video<\/a> featuring the young couple trying on different outfits together. Concurrently, the\u00a0Dallas Mavericks star forward posted a\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/c1oudeman\/status\/2055109436759253291\" rel=\"nofollow\">sweet Instagram story<\/a>\u00a0showing the two sharing a kiss, with a nice black heart emoji.<\/p>\n<p>Roberson is a talented 6-foot-4 center for the Duke Blue Devils women\u2019s basketball team. She first crossed paths with Flagg when both players were freshmen at Duke University during the 2024\u201325 college academic year.<\/p>\n<p>After redshirting her true freshman season due to an unfortunate injury, she averaged 8.0 points and 5.7 rebounds per game in her first active season, helping lead the Duke team to the Elite Eight tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Roberson is also the younger sister of seven-year NBA veteran Andre Roberson, who previously earned NBA All-Defensive Second Team honors with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nba\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> team during his professional career.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg recently updated the public on his personal life through his official channels. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-673333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}