Who is Amir “Aura” Khan?
That’s the question everyone has been asking as McNeese State’s Men’s Basketball student manager has been taking March Madness and the Internet by storm with his tunnel walkouts.
Before each game, Aura leads McNeese State into battle, as he wraps a boombox around his neck that blasts various rap songs from rappers like Kodak Black and NBA Youngboy, and walks the Cowboys from the locker room, through the arena tunnel, and onto the basketball court.
The guy has personality as well, and takes his role very seriously. He once said, “If they kept manager stats for rebounding and wiping up wet spots on the court, I’d put up Wilt Chamberlain numbers.”
And look how he keeps himself in shape to be the best team manager in the nation.
The guys is a maniac, telling Sporting News that his fast mopping skills are what separates him from the field. “My quickness,” he told the outlet. “As soon as a player gets down, I’m running towards the wet spot, I’m diving on the floor for everyone, wiping up as quick as I can, but also making sure I get it. [Then] getting up as fast as possible and getting ready for the next one.”
His aura has earned him not only a lifelong nickname, but it’s earned him some paper. Khan is the first student manager to have NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) deals, and he has them with TickPick, Insomnia Cookies and Buffalo Wild Wings.
Here he is letting everyone know what time it is like Shedeur Sanders.
He even has the cheerleader squad wearing socks with his face on them.
The god even takes time to give out some fan love.
If you’re still not convinced, check out this list I put together of some of his best rap moments this season.
I gotta warn you, though. The aura is contagious.
I mean the aura just oozes from the depths of his soul — and I can’t blame him, “No Flockin’” has this affect on a lot of people. I know you were nodding your head and singing along, like, “Pardon me, I don’t talk to you so don’t you talk to me/ I ain’t dissin’ on nobody, B, I’m vibin’ on the beat.”
The one that started it all.
Amir joked around with the team about knowing every word to this song, and when they didn’t believe him, Yung Aura had to show and prove. This is the video that earned him his nickname and got him some NIL money.
The aura is inexplicable and indescribable, yet influential.
He know the words to a lot of songs, Amir’s bag is deep like his pockets.
Okay, so he might know this song, but you can still see his aura and it’s iced-out. I also had to include this because of the TickPix boombox. That NIL money got my guy acting like he’s been here before.
The 12th-seeded McNeese State Cowboys upset the 5th-seeded Clemson Tigers 69-67 on Thursday night (March 20), due in no small part to how they walked out. They now look to take down the 4th-seeded Purdue Boilermakers on Saturday (Mar. 22) at 12:10 pm in Providence, RI.
We, like the rest of the country, will be there to see how Aura and the boys walk out before the game.
Lud Foe is essentially retired these days, but maybe he should consider popping back out to perform this song with McNeese State in the next round of the tourney, like a boxer walking to the ring for a big fight.
Sports social media loves this kid.
Here’s a fan cam, set to the tune of King Von’s “Armed & Dangerous.”
He says, “I’m used to cutting off nets, not putting them on,” and then Kendrick’s “TV Off” comes on.
That’s effortless aura.