As if we needed another reason to love Ron Baker and Fred VanVleet, along comes 9-year-old Keaton Palmer.
He’s been bouncing a basketball, his grandmother said, since he was old enough to walk. And he’s been a basketball fan, and specifically a fan of Wichita State, for about as long. But the kid, like so many others, is gaga for the two former Shockers.
“He’ll literally shoot baskets for hours,” Janet Adamson, Keaton’s grandma, said. “He has a goal in his driveway and we bought him kind of an arcade-type basketball goal that he plays on in the winter.