Max Christie is grounded. The sophomore boys basketball star from Rolling Meadows has been receiving tons of attention from Division 1 coaches after an exceptional freshman year and even a better summer season. Yet, he still thinks of himself as just a local kid.

Prospect’s boys basketball team defeated Rolling Meadows 65-49 Friday night. Meadows played wihtout sophomore standout Max Christie, who missed the game with an injury.

The Northwest suburbs All-Area Boys Basketball Team.

Rolling Meadows fell to Loyola 63-43 Tuesday night in a Class 4A boys basketball regional game.

Here’s a look at the Class 3A and Class 4A boys basketball postseason in the Northwest suburbs and Lake County.

Schaumburg defeated Rolling Meadows 59-43 in boys basketball action Tuesday night.

Rolling Meadows snapped Prospect’s 28-game Mid-Suburban East winning streak 67-60 in overtime Friday night in boys basketball action.

Max Christie had a triple-double Tuesday night to lead Rolling Meadows to a 55-46 nonconference boys basketball win over Maine East.

Rolling Meadows won a thrilling 52-49 overtime decison over host Wheeling in the Mid-Suburban East boys basketball game on Friday.

Michael Best scored 25 points Wednesday night to lead Wheeling to a 52-46 nonconference boys basketball win over Maine East.

Sophomore standout Max Christie returned from injury Monday night and scored 40 points as Rolling Meadows defeated Niles West 74-72 in boys basketball action.

Buffalo Grove defeated Rolling Meadows 84-69 in boys basketball action Friday night.

Not yet. Max Christie is getting closer. But the superstar sophomore forward from Rolling Meadows is not yet quite ready to return to action, which is bad news for basketball fans all over the Northwest suburbs.

Rolling Meadows downed Elk Grove 61-55 in boys baksetball action Friday night.

Maine West defeated Rolling Meadows 52-36 in nonconference boys basketball action Saturday.

Hersey defeated Rolling Meadows 52-36 in boys basketball action Friday night.

A casual hand slap at practice cost St. Viator’s Trey Calvin a broken hand. He’ll be out of action for approximately six weeks.

Rolling Meadows downed Conant 55-51 Tuesday night in boys basketball action.

Sophomore Max Christie scored 23 points and had 13 rebounds Thursday to lead the Rolling Meadows boys basketball team to a 67-29 win over Andrew at York’s Jack Tosh Holiday Classic.

Rolling Meadows’ boys basketball team lost to Stagg 56-49 Wednesday night in the Jack Tosh Classic at York.

Rolling Meadows downed Wheeling 69-61 in boys basketball action Friday night.

It will be like deja vu all over again for some nostalgic basketball coaches in the Northwest suburbs who, over the next couple of weeks, will be taking their teams to the exact same holiday basketball tournaments that they played in themselves as high school players.

Here’s a look at boys basketball holiday tournaments involving teams from the Northwest suburbs.

Sophomore Max Christie of Rolling Meadows is the Daily Herald’s boys basketball MVP for his efforts last week.

Sophomore Max Christie scored 51 points Friday night as Rolling Meadows’ boys basketball team defeated Elk Grove 78-76 in overtime.

Just a sophomore, Rolling Meadows forward Max Christie has already made quite a name for himself. But not just around here.

Matt Schoessling and Sean Nolan helped key the fourth quarter for the Rolling Meadows boys basketball team Tuesday night as the Mustangs defeated Wheaton Academy 64-57 in a nonconference game at Meadows.

Buffalo Grove defeated Rolling Meadows 67-54 in boys basketball action Friday night.

It was an old-fashioned shootout between Palatine’s Julian Campbell and Rolling Meadows’ Max Christie Tuesday night in Palatine.

Rolling Meadows pulled out a 55-52 boys basketball win over Hersey Friday night.

Will Raider poured in a game-high 27 points Friday to lead Barrington’s boys basketball team to an 82-61 win over Rockton Hononegah at the Crystal Lake Central Thanksgiving tournament.

Dean Ganas and Bryce Hopkins scored 16 points each Tuesday night to lead the Fremd boys basketball team to a 68-55 win over Deerfield at the Mundelein Thanksgiving Tournament.

Here’s a preview of the Mid-Suburban East boys basketball season for 2018-19.