Former Franklin High School standout Luke Kennard, a guard for the Los Angeles Clippers, is expected to have the No. 10 jersey he wore for the Wildcats retired Tuesday night before a boys' basketball game against Springboro.
Kennard was a two-time Ohio Mr. Basketball (in 2014 and 2015) at Franklin, and a football standout as well.
Kennard celebrated the Bengals' AFC Championship win to advance to Super Bowl LVI with a tweet:
Last week, Kennard said it would be "really cool" to participate in the 3-point contest at the upcoming NBA All-Star Game in Cleveland.
Kennard was quoted in a story by LATimes.com's Broderick Turner:
“We’ll see, especially being back in Ohio. It would be a pretty cool thing to do, back home, friends and family, I know a lot would go. So, but we’ll see. It is what it is. Just focused on what we’ve got going on right now and just trying to get better with the guys.”
Earlier last week, Kennard helped the Clippers rally from a 66-36 halftime deficit, scoring 80 second-half points in an improbable 116-115 win. Kennard had 25 points off the bench on 8-of-13 from the field - including 5-of-8 from 3-point range - with eight rebounds and six assists. He scored seven points in the final nine seconds, including a go-ahead, four-point play with 1.9 seconds left.
Last March, Kennard scored 20 points in 18 minutes off the bench to help the Clippers rally past the Atlanta Hawks.
Kennard agreed in Dec. 2020 to a four-year contract extension reportedly worth $64 million.
Kennard visited Franklin's basketball practice just days after he was traded from the Detroit Pistons to the Clippers.
Kennard, 25, the Pistons' first-round pick out of Duke in 2017, is one of seven players from local high schools, the Cincinnati Bearcats or Xavier Musketeers on NBA rosters.
In Oct. 2019, Kennard's NBA season got off to a memorable start as he poured in a career-high 30 points off the bench to help the Pistons win their season-opener against the Pacers in Indianapolis.
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