Wisconsin's Johnny Davis showing up regularly in Taco Bell advertisement during NBA playoffs
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The Milwaukee Bucks may be out of the NBA postseason, but there's plenty of Wisconsin to go around, between Miami's Tyler Herro and Boston's Sam Hauser in the East and Milwaukee natives Kevon Looney and Jordan Poole suiting up for the Golden State Warriors.
And Johnny Davis during the ad breaks.
The La Crosse native and Big Ten Player of the Year this season for the Wisconsin Badgers stars in a regularly recurring Taco Bell advertisement pushing the toasted cheddar chalupa, using the forthcoming NBA draft as a theme.
Davis rose to a national profile with a huge sophomore season this year, though it might be surprising to see a player who's seen as a top-15 pick in the draft promoting a national brand and not necessarily a lock for, say, the top five or higher.
Davis also has endorsement deals with Mountain Dew and Jockey.
Mock drafts have slotted Davis as high as No. 8 to New Orleans and even as low as No. 24 to the Milwaukee Bucks, though primarily he can be found in the 8-15 range. It's not even 100% clear if he'll be the first Wisconsin native off the board, with a lot of mystery around Sussex Hamilton alumnus Patrick Baldwin, who could be found much higher in mock drafts prior to his injury-shortened season last year at UW-Milwaukee.
Milwaukee-born Ochai Agbaji of Kansas will also most likely hear his name in the first round, and Milwaukee natives Alondes Williams and Michael Foster Jr. also figure into draft night.
This isn’t any disrespect to Johnny Davis. In fact, I had him as my National POY until final week or two of the season.
But Taco Bell picked Davis to be in a commercial that is on about 10 times every NBA playoff game. Just a little strange since he’s not projected top 5. https://t.co/Vb4pINeMr2— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) May 26, 2022
Taco Bell knows Johnny Davis will be the steal of this draft too it looks like
— Stew🏀 (@StewyHoops) May 26, 2022
Johnny Davis with the Bag Guy move of the year so far starring in the new Taco Bell commercial pic.twitter.com/6LXQ2A6UxI
— Tate Frazier (@tatefrazier) May 24, 2022
Former #Badger hoopster Johnny Davis now has a national Taco Bell commercial & he hasn't even been drafted yet & might fall out of top 10. To my knowledge, that's one more spot (for anyone) than Luka has. How is this happening? Oh, and Boban has 3 different ads.
— Ed Bark (@unclebarkycom) May 23, 2022
JR Radcliffe can be reached at (262) 361-9141 or jradcliffe@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JRRadcliffe.
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