LOOK: Walker Kessler shows off awesome tribute to Auburn with NBA Draft suit
Former Auburn star Walker Kessler had a historic season during the 2021-2022 college basketball year, establishing himself as one of the nation’s premiere big men. He’s in Brooklyn, New York as part of the festivities for tonight’s 2022 NBA Draft and the big man not only picked an incredibly sharp suit, but he showed off a really cool tribute to the Auburn Tigers on his jacket.
Check it out.
The 7-foot-1, 245 pounder made a huge jump in improvement from his freshman year with the North Carolina Tar Heels to his sophomore year with the Tigers. He averaged 11.4 points per game, 8.1 rebounds per game, and 4.6 blocks per game. The gifted shot blocker won the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year after he shattered Auburn’s single-season blocks record with 144 total blocks on the season. Following the season, Kessler announced that he would be turning pro and entering the 2022 NBA Draft.
In becoming the first Auburn player to ever bring home the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Award, Kessler beat out some incredibly talented players in college basketball. He beat out Gonzaga’s Chet Holmgren, Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe, and Duke’s Mark Williams for the annual award.
Kessler was highly thought of as a high school prospect and he showed exactly why last year
Coming out of high school, Kessler was rated as the No. 4 center prospect in America, according to the On3 Consensus Rankings and was rated as the No. 21 overall prospect in America for the 2020 recruiting class. It’s refreshing to see a player live up to their vast potential and the gifted big man showed last season exactly why he was so highly thought of coming out of Woodward Academy (Fairburn, Georgia). It’ll be exciting to watch his career continue to progress in the NBA.
The 2022 NBA Draft is set to begin tonight, Thursday, June 23rd at 8:00 PM EST. The first round of the 2022 NBA Draft will be televised on ESPN and ABC. The second round will be aired exclusively on ESPN.
On3’s Griffin McVeigh also contributed to this article.