Dallas Mavericks head coach Dusty May has built a family around the game he loves.
He met his wife, Anna May, in elementary school, and the two now have three sons who are all involved in basketball to some degree.
As their son, Charlie May, told Hour Detroit in 2025, “Most of our lives revolve around basketball. Holidays like Thanksgiving, we’re traveling to where games are. Christmas, we have maybe three days off.”
Prioritizing the sport makes sense — Dusty burst onto the national scene in 2023 when he miraculously led Florida Atlantic University to the Final Four, where his Owls lost on a buzzer-beater to San Diego State in the semifinals.
Michigan hired him two years later, and two of his sons eventually joined him in Ann Arbor. Dusty’s success at FAU translated immediately to Ann Arbor, as he led the Wolverines to a 19-win turnaround in year one and a national championship in year two, before the NBA came calling.
Keep scrolling for Dusty May’s family guide:
Anna May
Dusty and Anna May met as first graders at Eastern Greene Elementary School in Indiana and began dating in high school. They stayed together in college, despite going to different schools, dating long distance. At the time, Dusty served as a team manager under Hall of Famer Bob Knight at the University of Indiana and Anna went to rival Purdue University.
“I don’t remember a time when I didn’t love Dusty and have feelings for Dusty,” Anna told Sports Illustrated in March 2023.
The two married in 2000, the same year they graduated from college. Anna now works as an occupational therapist.
Jack May
Dusty and Anna May’s eldest son, Jack, was a walk-on at the University of Florida from 2020 to 2024. A four-time SEC Academic Honor Roll member, Jack appeared in 21 games during his Gators career, scoring 15 points. He graduated with a degree in Sport Management and now works for the NBA’s Miami Heat.
Charlie May
Dusty May isn’t the only member of the family to earn a championship ring in 2026. His middle son, Charlie May, was a reserve for the 2025-2026 Wolverines, who beat UConn in the title game. Charlie transferred to Michigan from UCF in 2024 and has appeared in 11 games over the last two seasons.
When the season ended, Charlie took a graduate assistant job at the University of Georgia under head coach Mike White — his dad’s former boss.
Eli May
Eli May is the youngest of Dusty and Anna May’s kids. He’s following in his dad’s student-manager footsteps, filling the same role for Dusty at Michigan.
But make no mistake — just because Eli was the coach’s son, it didn’t make him immune from doing the grunt work of a student-manager.
“I’m technically in charge of him and he never complains,” his fellow manager, Sam Saraceno, told USA Today in April 2026. “Eli is doing grunt work a lot of people wouldn’t do. That’s how you could tell it was different.”
Eli is expected to graduate in 2028, according to his LinkedIn page.
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