“I know it was really hard for him to feel helpless and not be out there with his team,” Kelly tells PEOPLE of the Duke star
Duke basketball star Cooper Flagg is “feeling great” ahead of the 2025 March Madness tournament, his mom Kelly Bowman Flagg tells PEOPLE.
The freshman phenom, 18, suffered a scary injury in the final minutes of the ACC tournament quarterfinal against Georgia Tech on March 13 and was sidelined for Duke’s final two games. Kelly, a former basketball player at the University of Maine, says Cooper is “excited to work his way back” so he can compete in March Madness.
For the Duke star’s mom, the moment he was injured was a scary experience. “I was like, ‘Oh no, how can this be happening now?,’ ” she tells PEOPLE, as part of her partnership with Dr. Scholl’s . “He got through the entire season fairly injury free, other than he got poked in the eye, he had some cramping, but nothing major that sidelined him.”…