{"id":437218,"date":"2026-01-25T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/437218\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:57:08","slug":"patriots-drake-maye-was-good-at-basketball-too-like-his-unc-brother-luke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/437218\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots’ Drake Maye was good at basketball, too, like his UNC brother Luke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patriots’ Drake Maye was good at basketball, too, like his UNC brother Luke<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s well known that the brother of New England Patriots<\/a> QB Drake Maye was the University of North Carolina basketball star, Luke.<\/p>\n

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Drake didn’t follow in his older brother’s footsteps, but that’s not because he couldn’t hoop.<\/p>\n

Maye was a standout basketball player at Myers Park (N.C.) High School outside of Charlotte, too, as soon as football season would end and allow him to get out on the court.<\/p>\n

The Athletic’s Chad Graff<\/a> wrote a great story this week about Maye’s high school hoops prowess.<\/p>\n

“Long before he was the captain of the Patriots…\u00a0Maye was a high school hoops star, throwing down dunks, pulling down rebounds in traffic and kick-starting fast breaks,” Graff wrote. “And he played for only those few winter months before returning to football.”<\/p>\n

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Maye, Graff writes, was always trying to set up his teammates. A good quarterback, even on the basketball court.<\/p>\n

And he had hoops interest from the Division I level, too.<\/p>\n

“Colleges came calling during that sophomore season,” Graff writes. “They wanted him to consider focusing on basketball instead of football. Clemson, in particular, really liked him.”<\/p>\n

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Nick Saban recruited Maye, who initially committed to Alabama, and he told Pat McAfee that Maye “probably could’ve played basketball at North Carolina, too.”<\/p>\n

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In a third-round playoff game when Maye was a sophomore, his brother came to watch with two UNC teammates. And in that game, Drake had 25 points and 18 rebounds.<\/p>\n

He didn’t get to play his senior season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and so Maye’s basketball career ended a season shorter than he would’ve liked.<\/p>\n

He still likes shooting hoops, though. Basketball is in the Maye family’s blood.<\/p>\n

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