{"id":231902,"date":"2025-09-16T17:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/231902\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:53:15","slug":"msu-basketball-offers-kingston-thomas-son-of-spartans-national-champion-david-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/231902\/","title":{"rendered":"MSU basketball offers Kingston Thomas, son of Spartans national champion David Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan State basketball has extended an offer to a local prospect with longtime ties to the Spartans program.<\/p>\n<p>Kingston Thomas of East Lansing, Mich. announced on Tuesday that he&#8217;s received an offer from the Spartans. Thomas shared the notable recruiting news via a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kingkt114\/status\/1967971395226476759\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:post;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">post<\/a> on social media on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kingston Thomas is the son of David Thomas, who played at Michigan State and once served as the Spartans Director of Basketball Operations. David Thomas was a member of the Spartans&#8217; 2000 National Championship team under head coach Tom Izzo, and served as the Director of Basketball Operations at Michigan State for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Kingston Thomas plays for East Lansing High School, and has already picked up interest from numerous Mid-American Conference schools. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.thedzone.com\/players\/kingston-thomas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The D Zone;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The D Zone<\/a>, Kingston Thomas has offers from Central Michigan, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/eastern-michigan-eagles\/3456\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eastern Michigan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Eastern Michigan<\/a>, Western Michigan, Toledo and Bowling Green State.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear at this time if the Spartans are extending Kingston Thomas a scholarship offer or something in-line with a preferred walk-on spot. We should learn more about his recruitment in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thespartanswire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The SpartansWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The SpartansWire<\/a> on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpartansWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> to follow ongoing coverage of Michigan State news, notes and opinion. You can also follow Robert Bondy on X @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertBondy5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:RobertBondy5;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">RobertBondy5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Spartans Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/spartans\/recruiting\/2025\/09\/16\/msu-basketball-offers-kingston-thomas\/86182865007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MSU basketball offers Spartans legacy Kingston Thomas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MSU basketball offers Spartans legacy Kingston Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball has extended an offer to a local prospect with longtime ties to the Spartans program.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":231903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,124960,124957,124959,124958,20592,1317,1337,1338,62,4546,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-231902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-basketball-operations","10":"tag-david-thomas","11":"tag-east-lansing","12":"tag-kingston-thomas","13":"tag-michigan-state","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-basketball","16":"tag-ncaabasketball","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-thomas","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115215257047253718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}