KANSAS CITY, MO. — Sometimes before home games, Trae Young will take a drive.
Sometimes, Young's drive takes him down Stubbeman Avenue, past Norman North High School, where he starred for the Timberwolves and became a state-wide sensation before becoming a national sensation with a record-setting freshman season.
More often, though, his drives take him less than two miles away, up Flood Avenue and west on Lexington Avenue.
There sits the Cleveland County Family YMCA — the gym that built Trae Young the basketball player.
“We had a little goal in our front yard he would shoot on, but we lived at the YMCA,” Rayford Young, Trae's father, said.