The legend of Max Abmas begins long before he was draining threes from just inside of halfcourt in the men's NCAA tournament for Oral Roberts.
One story that sticks out in the mind of Abmas’s AAU coach Kevin Butler, dates all the way back to his ninth-grade summer. While playing at the Nike Peach Jam in Atlanta, Abmas scored 47 points against a team from Chicago that featured multiple future high-level Division I players. Abmas’s team lost by two points, but his opponents were so floored by the performance that they came over and asked Max for his autograph.