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PORTLAND — The place mattered.
Cooper Flagg could’ve played anywhere in this state, be it here at Cross Insurance Arena, a tiny high school gym or a local town park with an old, worn-out hoop. It doesn’t matter, because wherever Flagg goes, Mainers follow.
This arena, though, was a bridge from what Flagg was as a Nokomis Regional High School star in 2022 to what he is now: ESPN’s top-ranked high school player in the country and a Duke University commitment.
It was here that, on March 5, 2022, he played his last game for Nokomis, which won its first Gold Ball with a 43-27 victory over Falmouth.
“I think the first day we walked in for practice (here), I kind of got all the flashbacks,” Flagg, now a senior at prep powerhouse Montverde Academy in Florida, said after his team claimed a 92-51 victory over Gonzaga College High School of Washington, D.C., at Cross Arena. “Just thinking about all the memories and all the good times we had.”
Flagg is back in Maine for the two-day “Maine Event,” which pitted Montverde against Gonzaga on Friday and then CATS Academy of Braintree, Massachusetts, on Saturday at the Portland Expo. He dazzled in Friday night’s opener, registering 23 points, 10 rebounds, five assists and nine blocks in the 93-51 blowout win.
Read more here: https://www.centralmaine.com/2024/01/06/cooper-flaggs-return-to-maine-a-bridge-from-beginnings-to-growing-stardom/
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