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Mfiondu Kabengele wears FSU teammates’ names inside his jacket at NBA Draft

NBA: NBA Draft Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports

Mfiondu Kabengele was the only Seminole invited to Brooklyn for the 2019 NBA Draft. But that didn’t stop him from taking his Florida State teammates with him, even if it was only in name— or, perhaps more accurately, stitching?

Kabengele, who was selected in the first-round by the Brooklyn Nets but immediately traded to the Los Angeles Clippers with the 27th overall pick, was a selfless teammate in Tallahassee, and a big reason that the ’Noles made the Sweet Sixteen again in 2019 after an Elite Eight run in 2018.

And on Thursday, Kabengele once again put his teammates on his shoulders, by having their names sewn into the lining of the suit jacket he wore to the Barclay Center. Check it out:

Of course, one of those names is that of Terance Mann. But Mann isn’t just going to LA as part of Fi’s wardrobe. The Clippers kept these two teammates together by drafting Mann in the second round.