All six of them, as Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl pointed out Thursday, played high school basketball in the greater-Atlanta area.
The six Pearl referred to are former Auburn basketball players that were selected in the NBA Draft that all came from the state of Georgia.
On Saturday, No. 11 Auburn and Pearl return to the Peach State and Atlanta for the third season in a row, playing Memphis in the Holiday Hoopsgiving event at 4 p.m. CT at State Farm Arena. According to Pearl, the Tigers have sold out their allotment of tickets, which was approximately 2,200 tickets. The multi-weekend event will have plenty of regional presence. The Tigers are taking on a quality Memphis squad, the lone Tennessee representative. Wake Forest and Clemson will represent the Carolinas, Tulane and LSU will represent Louisiana and Georgia will head down the road to represent the home state. Several players on Auburn’s squad will be representing the home state, too.
“I finally get to go home and play, actually like, where I’m from,” Johnson, who’s from Atlanta, said Thursday. “That’ll be a fun experience seeing my whole family there.”
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