College Park Skyhawks Set Opening Night Roster as Sanjay Lumpkin Era Begins

Skyhawks Open the 2026-27 Season on Nov. 6 with Three-Game Homestand Featuring Raptors 905 and Long Island Nets

The College Park Skyhawks set their opening night roster on Thursday. It gives first-year head coach Sanjay Lumpkin a group with plenty of experience, and the core of it is familiar. Four players are back from the 2025-26 team: Atlanta Hawks two-way guards RayJ Dennis and Keshon Gilbert, along with Kobe Johnson and Devon Higgs. Together the roster has 634 games of NBA G League experience, which is a lot of mileage for a team going through a coaching change.

That returning group had a busy offseason. Dennis, Gilbert, Johnson and Higgs all played in both 2026 NBA Summer Leagues alongside rookies Isaac McKneely and Cameron Corhen. The link to Atlanta got stronger in the fall, when six Skyhawks saw action with the Hawks during the 2026-27 NBA Preseason. That group was Dennis, Gilbert, Johnson, McKneely, Corhen and two-way forward Jalen Wilson. Wilson signed a two-way contract with Atlanta in July and starts his first season in College Park as the third two-way player on the roster, joining Dennis and Gilbert.

The frontcourt brings back a familiar face in Giorgi Bezhanishvili. The 6-9 forward/center out of Illinois played 50 games for College Park during the 2022-23 season and is the most experienced player on the roster, with four years of professional experience. Three other veterans are new to College Park: forward Keyshawn Bryant from South Florida, 6-11 center Will Baker from LSU and guard Keon Johnson from Tennessee. Between them they have played 183 NBA G League games, so they don’t arrive as newcomers to the league.

The youngest part of the roster has some promise too. Jestin Porter, a first-round pick in the 2026 NBA G League Draft, comes in with as much college experience as anyone. The Houston, Texas native played six years of college basketball: two seasons at Tyler Junior College, three at Middle Tennessee State and a final year at Clemson. He joins a rookie class that also includes McKneely out of Louisville, Corhen out of Pittsburgh and guard Lamont Butler out of Kentucky.

Fans won’t have to wait long to see the new group, because College Park opens the Tip-Off Tournament portion of its schedule with a three-game homestand. Opening Night is Friday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. against Raptors 905. The two teams meet again Sunday, Nov. 8 at 2 p.m., and the homestand wraps up Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. against the Long Island Nets.