By Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter Published Jun 22, 2016 at 2:32 PM

The NBA Draft has for decades been a showcase of sartorial shock and awe, an arena of avant-garde audacity, a place for prolific pleating and pinstriped preposterousness, loud colors and monogrammed lapels, a carefully chosen cacophony of coordinated clashing, where double-breasted 48-extra longs generate double-take gawking, social media commotion, appearances on "worst-dressed" listicles and excessively alliterative blog posts.

There was Karl Malone's much, much-too-small ensemble in 1985, Jalen Rose's Craig Sager-like all-red striped suit in 1994, Samaki Walker's creamy outfit with matching beige fedora two years later, former Bucks forward Tim Thomas' baggy and billowy Salvation Army steal in 1997 ("light it up, light it up!"), fellow former Buck Drew Gooden's buttonless and boxy bed-sheet thing in 2002 and many, many, many more ranging from hideous to hilarious to normalish to legitimately awesome.

Last year, ex-Wisconsin Badger Frank Kaminsky gave a nod to his nickname by having tanks sewn into his jacket. 

Even though it's not quite the big night – the event is Thursday at 7 p.m. CT at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn – Marquette star Henry Ellenson is already getting into the spirit of stylistic risk-taking while doing his official pre-draft pictures.

The 6-foot-11 Ellenson went with a gray hooded suit jacket on Wednesday, a cool-casual, dressed-down look over a white shirt that was actually pretty fashion forward for the 19-year-old native of Rice Lake, Wis. When I was 19, I was wearing flannel shirts and snap pants, so good on you, Henry.

Ellenson said last week that his family will be with him on draft night, when he's expected to be a lottery pick, and we'll have to see if he's got something similarly snazzy ready for the walk across the stage to shake hands with the commissioner.

While OnMilwaukee pop culture editor and resident fashion expert Matt Mueller doesn't like the hoodie suit, James Jones surely approves. 

Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter

Born in Milwaukee but a product of Shorewood High School (go ‘Hounds!) and Northwestern University (go ‘Cats!), Jimmy never knew the schoolboy bliss of cheering for a winning football, basketball or baseball team. So he ditched being a fan in order to cover sports professionally - occasionally objectively, always passionately. He's lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas, but now resides again in his beloved Brew City and is an ardent attacker of the notorious Milwaukee Inferiority Complex.

After interning at print publications like Birds and Blooms (official motto: "America's #1 backyard birding and gardening magazine!"), Sports Illustrated (unofficial motto: "Subscribe and save up to 90% off the cover price!") and The Dallas Morning News (a newspaper!), Jimmy worked for web outlets like CBSSports.com, where he was a Packers beat reporter, and FOX Sports Wisconsin, where he managed digital content. He's a proponent and frequent user of em dashes, parenthetical asides, descriptive appositives and, really, anything that makes his sentences longer and more needlessly complex.

Jimmy appreciates references to late '90s Brewers and Bucks players and is the curator of the unofficial John Jaha Hall of Fame. He also enjoys running, biking and soccer, but isn't too annoying about them. He writes about sports - both mainstream and unconventional - and non-sports, including history, music, food, art and even golf (just kidding!), and welcomes reader suggestions for off-the-beaten-path story ideas.