{"id":670452,"date":"2026-05-28T16:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670452\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:52:14","slug":"cooper-flagg-receives-gift-from-historic-designer-after-winning-nba-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670452\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg receives gift from historic designer after winning NBA ROY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Duke star <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/10468\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cooper Flagg;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cooper Flagg&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Flagg<\/a> impressed the NBA throughout the 2025-26 season, earning the Rookie of the Year Award over his former Duke teammate <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/10450\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kon Knueppel;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kon Knueppel&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kon Knueppel<\/a>. Following the presentation of the trophy, Flagg received a special gift, coming from one of his endorsement partners, Chime.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg had starred in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OERMwue7_4Y\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:commercial;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;commercial&quot;}\" class=\"link \">commercial<\/a> for Chime that aired during the season, alongside NBA legend and Flagg&#8217;s favorite player, Larry Bird. A video of the gift from Chime showed a custom jacket made by legendary designer Jeff Hamilton. Hamilton is also in the video, discussing his creative process. For those that don&#8217;t know, Hamilton holds a special place in NBA history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nba\/videos\/you-may-have-seen-some-legends-in-these-nba75-jackets-by-jeff-hamilton-heres-the\/945438306158353\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:making iconic jackets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;making iconic jackets&quot;}\" class=\"link \">making iconic jackets<\/a> for past NBA stars like Michael Jordan, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3118\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kobe Bryant;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kobe Bryant&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kobe Bryant<\/a> and now Cooper Flagg.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Duke Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/dukewire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/duke\/mens-basketball\/2026\/05\/28\/cooper-flagg-receives-incredible-gift-after-winning-nba-roy\/90273937007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cooper Flagg receives incredible gift after winning NBA ROY;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cooper Flagg receives incredible gift after winning NBA ROY&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Cooper Flagg receives incredible gift after winning NBA ROY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Duke star Cooper Flagg impressed the NBA throughout the 2025-26 season, earning the Rookie of the Year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[232739,761,292554,7566,22487,355,99],"class_list":["post-670452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-chime","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-jeff-hamilton","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-kon-knueppel","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}