For Cooper Flagg, homecoming remains special as celebrity grows
Orono – there were weeks to go for the NBA Designfor the night his life would change. But Dad the Domething Flagg's thoughts, for a moment, were not at where he went, but where he had been.
He and trainer mat mackments words with Mood with Los Angeles end with, plans of their coming workouts, when the timeline had to be found for a minute.
“He said 'Hey, I think that the day is my old classmates back to Nokomis High School,” Mackenzie said. “Then he thought there a second kind, and he was like 'man, that would be real cool than I could go when I could go and be in it with those guys.' I looked at him and said 'well, you can be.' He said, “You think that?” 'Of course.' '
A few hours and some phone calls to Agents later, the plans were set. When Nokomis' class of 2025 graduated on June 6, the most famous alum was already to see them.
“We moved our prior training to Maarn to Maine, and he had just a great time, and you can view and be connected to that child,” Mackenzie said. “He learns as he is going on here, if he wants to be in Maine and he has some time to do it, he can go.”
Cooper Flagg Durses between his legs while competing against a camper in a 2 vs. 2-game during the Cooper and Ace Flagg Basketball-on Saturday. (Anna Chadwick / Staff photographer)
And the people who know him, say that that three years of skyrocketing fame and fortune does not stamp. There is no deficiency of celebrities of small states and communities for who lived in their biography, as a little trivia, after they make the big cities in the spotlight.
Flagg could fit the criteria. He is one of the largest sports names in the country, the no. 1-General pick in the draft, and the $ 62.7 million future of the Dallas Mavericks. But for the 18-year-old who tagged him as “just a child of Maine,” Describe the words a tire, he has no interest in removing.
“Being home, being back in the place where you grew up, you just grew out ground,” said flagg. “It is really refreshing, just to be home and being in this environment. … It just means a lot.”
Flag spoke along his twin brother, in a noon, in a lunch of the Cooper and Ace Flagg at the University of Maine, marking the camp that they run into the camp. He spoke hours after he and his brother the campers in 2-on-2 games, and take the possibilities to throw the types of dunves, traveles and athletic finishes for whom he has become known.
She moves that he could have done in the country everywhere in the land. But to do it in Maine, just about half an hour from where he grew up, has a special meaning.
COOPER AND ACE FLAGG Select a Camp Wading As the “Number One Draft Pick” During the Cooper and Ace Flagg Basketball Corps on Saturday in Orono. (Anna Chadwick / Staff photographer)
“Everywhere in the country he goes, he is kind of a big deal. It is” Wow, it is Cooper Flagg, “he said, Kelly.” And here he just get the children of Maine. He is a born child, and he likes to come back to his roots, be myself worried about the outside world. “
When Flagging comes home, he relax. He removes. He plays video games with friends, he spends time with his grandparents, he plays golf with a three teammates of former teammates. He hits the old, known stroke, the places he loved when he was 8 and still enjoy going to when he is 18.
“He has traditions he likes to do is,” Mattbrown said, a teacher and wave coach at Nokomis, who are friends with the flag family. “Last year, when he was at home we had played Belgrade (Lakes, the ice-cream in the city in the middle of my life in that place of my life I haven't been.” “
Are coope Flagg, now means cameras, if he is in public, asks for interviews, shoots for ads, relentless hype and constant attention. It is the world he has signed up for, and he understands it and treats it.
“He lets not let a lot of the outside of the extraction,” Mackenzie said. “But there will always be an appropriate time for a break.”
Cooper Flagg Sovars past a camp present Saturday. (Anna Chadwick / Staff photographer)
Maine delivers that break, and that escape.
“(I come to) type of leaving any outer things behind a little,” said Flagg. “Usually I'm here in Maine is that my time to forget about all that goods and all of my obligations, all of my obligations I have. It is normal to come and recharge and recharge.”
And if he cannot come home, he brings him to him. In June, Flagging had a selected number of people who could invite to the morning of the concept of the Commissioner. He gave spots to Longtime Friends Dawson Townsend, Alex Grad, Madden White, making them share the moment when his trip reaches new heights.
“For Cooper he enjoys that you have consistency in his life,” Mackenzie said. “That extends to all he does.”
Maine provides that consistency. It's why Flagges saved that the connection was stored by everything, and why no one knows him, sees that changes.
“It's still easy to be in my home. All my friends treat me just like normal,” he said. “Just being in my little town, who hang out, very normal things is why I get back to here.”
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