Former No. 1 pick and Dallas Mavericks star Cooper Flagg beat out Charlotte Hornets wing Kon Knueppel for Rookie of the Year.

Cooper Flagg was named the NBA's Rookie of the Year on Monday, as the top pick in last summer's draft, narrowly edged out ...

Knueppel's rookie campaign was nothing short of historic, but it wasn't enough to steal the ROY from Cooper Flagg.

In one of the award's closest finishes, Wisconsinite Kon Knueppel II took second to former college roommate Cooper Flagg for NBA Rookie of the Year.

Cooper Flagg, the No. 1 pick in last year’s draft, on Monday joined Jason Kidd (1995) and Luka Dončić (2019) as the only ...

Dallas Mavericks first overall pick Cooper Flagg edged fellow Duke alum Kon Knueppel in a razor-thin vote to win the 2025-26 ...

76ers forward VJ Edgecombe finished a distant third in the voting. Flagg's margin of victory over Knueppel was the ...

Dallas’ Cooper Flagg and Charlotte’s Kon Knueppel were Duke teammates last season. For the NBA’s Rookie of the Year award, ...

Cooper Flagg won the battle of the Duke Blue Devils in the race for the 2025-26 NBA Rookie of the Year award. As the season ...

(CAROLINA SPORTS LIVE) — Hornets guard Kon Knueppel fell short to his former Duke teammate Cooper Flagg in the 2025-26 Rookie ...

In the second-closest vote in the award's recent history, a 100-member global media panel selected Dallas Mavericks forward ...

Flagg is the first Mavericks player to win the award since Luka Doncic in 2019.