Nobody tell Drake Maye it’s the offseason.<\/p>\n
If you happened to catch last night’s game between the New York Knicks and Charlotte Hornets, you got a glimpse of Drake Maye enjoying some much needed down time.<\/p>\n
Drake and Ann Michael Maye were courtside at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte about 15 miles away from his hometown of Huntersville, NC.<\/p>\n
“Please welcome home to Buzz City, from Myers Park High School and the University of North Carolina, All-Pro quarterback…Drake Maye!” called out Hornets PA announcer Shawn Parker. Then Maye sprang into action.<\/p>\n
Armed with a football and a big smile on his face, Maye began firing footballs into the crowd, getting some snap help from Ann Michael.<\/p>\n
Drake Maye’s significance to the region was appropriately summed up in just a few short seconds. The majority of Maye’s personal and professional life were formed in North Carolina.<\/p>\n
Maye was a stand out two sport athlete at Myers Park High School. He set school passing and touchdown records on the football field and was an All-Conference, All-District player on the basketball court.<\/p>\n
After initially committing to Alabama, Drake Maye would stick with his hometown UNC Tar Heels and was named ACC Player of the Year in 2022. One year later, he was named second team All-ACC and would go on to be selected 3rd overall by the New England Patriots in the 2024 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n
Whether he’s throwing passes to Patriots receivers or Hornets fans in the nosebleed seats, Drake Maye’s stardom and popularity continue to grow wherever he goes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nobody tell Drake Maye it’s the offseason. If you happened to catch last night’s game between the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,25093,685,6,6547],"class_list":{"0":"post-682905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-charlottehornets","12":"tag-drake-maye","13":"tag-hornets","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-new-england-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116303286031134243","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}