Devin Booker gifts Michigan State basketball custom Nike shoes ahead of Suns-Pistons exhibition

Christmas has come early for the Michigan State basketball team.

Ahead of Tuesday night’s Detroit Pistons vs. Phoenix Suns exhibition game inside the Breslin Center, Suns shooting guard Devin Booker gifted each member of the Spartans roster and coaching staff a pair of special edition Michigan State Spartans Nike Book 1 PE shoes.

The Spartans shared their gift from Booker on X (formerly Twitter), as the Grand Rapids, Michigan native met with Tom Izzo and his team before Tuesday night’s exhibition game.

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“Got the little Sparty right here. All green, you know. Shoutout D-Book, man. Came through clutch for the guys. We here,” Michigan State redshirt freshman guard Jeremey Fears Jr. said in the video.

Here’s another look at the Booker’s new Michigan State Spartans Nike Book 1 PE that the Spartans received Tuesday:

Booker chose to play college basketball at Kentucky for then-Wildcats coach John Calipari over Izzo at Michigan State and Missouri. He spent the first year of his high school career playing at Grandville High School in Grandville, Michigan, before transferring to Moss Point in Mississippi for his final three seasons.

He averaged 30.9 points per game for Moss Point as a senior and was named a McDonald’s All-American before heading to Lexington to play for the Wildcats. Booker declared for the NBA, where he was taken No. 13 overall by the Phoenix Suns in the 2015 NBA Draft, after one season at Kentucky.

Booker is entering his 10th season in the NBA, all with Phoenix. The 6-foot-3 guard helped USA Basketball to gold this past summer at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The Spartans were projected to finish fifth in the Big Ten Conference this season in this season’s Big Ten preseason poll conducted by The Columbus Dispatch and The Indianapolis Star. Michigan State finished 20-15 overall last season and made it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, falling to 5-seed North…

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Author : Detroit Free Press

Publish date : 2024-10-08 20:50:06

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