7-foot Walker Kessler is Georgia’s boys basketball player of the year
Posted Mar 28, 2020
Walker Kessler averaged 17.8 points, 9.3 rebounds, and 5.2 blocked shots his senior season. A 5-star recruit, he signed with North Carolina in November. Kessler is the son of Chad Kessler, a former Georgia player who is an orthopedic surgeon. Kessler’s uncle, the late Alec Kessler, was a 6-11 forward and all-SEC player who led Georgia to an SEC title in 1990.
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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