Usain Bolt is warning you not to sleep on a little-known Brooklyn Nets guard.
The legendary Jamaican sprinter hung out with Sean Kilpatrick over the weekend and declared him “the future of basketball” in a post to his Snapchat account, per Alysha Tsuji of For The Win.
.@usainbolt with high praise for the Brooklyn Nets' @SeanKilpatrick pic.twitter.com/AxmuL5SI7F
— Alysha Tsuji (@AlyshaTsuji) May 7, 2017
Kilpatrick also called Bolt his mentor in an Instagram post later that night.
Sean Kilpatrick even says Usain Bolt is his mentor which is interesting! pic.twitter.com/3Jm7HNUuFZ
— Alysha Tsuji (@AlyshaTsuji) May 7, 2017
The 27-year-old Kilpatrick went undrafted in 2014 and bounced around the D-League before making a pair of 10-day contract stops with the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Denver Nuggets. He signed with Brooklyn in 2016, finally finding a home there and averaging 13.3 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 2.0 assists per game in his last two seasons with them.
It’s safe to say that Bolt, who has made some memorable forays into the basketball world in the past, knows talent when he sees it, so this is as strong of an endorsement as any for Kilpatrick as he enters the prime of his career.
