Andre Drummond and Raquel Smith

He showed up to the prom wearing a black bow tie, a black hat and Louis Vuitton shoes. He drove a white, four-door Porsche with California plates. And he stuck around for nearly two hours, chatting with students and staff and taking pictures.

This star prom date was Detroit Pistons player Andre Drummond, who accompanied senior Raquel Smith to the West Bloomfield High School event held Wednesday night at the Detroit Yacht Club.

Just a few months ago, Smith took to Twitter to ask Drummond, 21, to be her date. His response? He agreed to be her date, but only if she could get 12,000 retweets of her original request. She did, and the rest is history.

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It’s not the first time a student has brought a famous date. Last year, a student brought Evelyn Lozada, one of the stars of the VH1 reality show “Basketball Wives” to the prom as his date. He had similarly sought a date via social media, West Bloomfield High Principal Pat Watson said.

Watson said the school knew for months Drummond would be accompanying Smith. But officials were insistent that the high-profile date not overshadow the prom.

“He was absolutely amazing,” Watson said. “He stayed at prom almost two hours, was social with everyone, he was very nice. Of course even the adults wanted pictures and he was very accommodating. He was just an unbelievable.”

Still, Drummond’s Porsche had some stiff competition.

“He didn’t even have the nicest car there,” Watson joked. “We had a couple of Bentleys. My favorite was a convertible Rolls-Royce with Illinois plates. We had three students who came in Tesla cars.”

But Drummond’s Louis Vuitton footwear? That was a thing to admire, Watson said.

“All the kids were talking about the shoes,” he said.

Watson himself — a former basketball coach for girls and boys teams and the former athletic director at the school — greeted Drummond briefly, shaking his hand, saying hello and snapping a picture of the prom couple.

“It was everyone’s prom,” Watson said. “I didn’t want to be over there talking to him every 15 minutes.”

Contact Lori Higgins: 313-222-6651, lhiggins@freepress.com or @LoriAHiggins

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