If you are going to be watching the 2018 NBA Draft or be following along on social media, get ready to hear the name Mirjam Poterbin. Mirjam is the mother of top prospect Luka Doncic, the 19-year-old guard who plays professional basketball for Real Madrid in Spain.

Simply put, Mirjam is a dime, and she’s poised to be one of the breakout stars from draft night.

Mirjam is a former hurdler, model, dancer, and currently the owner of a “prestigious beauty salon” in Ljubljana. His father, Sasa Doncic, is a former professional basketball player and coach who played in the Slovenian League and EuroLeague.

If you follow Mirjam on social media, it doesn’t take long to realize she is one of her son’s biggest supporters.

“I think that Luka was born with it,” she said in an interview with EuroHoops.net. “Ever since he started walking, when he was one year old, he was playing with a ball in his hands. He was doing all types of sports. He liked soccer a lot but was too tall to play. As I said, I think that Luka was born to play basketball.”

The 2018 NBA Draft takes place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Live coverage of the draft begins at 7:00 p.m. ET on ESPN and it likely won’t be long before Doncic learns where he will begin his professional career in the NBA.

For more photos of Mirjam, check out the gallery below and be sure to head on over to Instagram and click follow to join the growing list of nearly 11,000 fans who can’t wait to see her next move.

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