Wisconsin basketball legend Frank Kaminsky welcomes first child with wife Ashley Brewer

Earlier this year it was announced that the Wisconsin basketball legend would be honored for his accomplishments on the hardwood as a member of the 2025 University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame. He'll be back in Madison for the induction ceremony during the weekend of Sept. 5-6.

And Kaminsky will be inducted as a first-time dad.

Kaminsky, along with his wife, Ashley Brewer, announced on Sunday, July 20, the birth of their first child, Francis Stanley Kaminsky IV.

Frank Kaminsky's actual name is Francis.

The couple shared cute family photos on Instagram from the hospital of baby Francis, along with tender moments they shared with their first born.

"A gift from heaven. Thank you Jesus!" Ashley wrote on Instagram attached to a photo of Francis in her arms with Frank by their sides on the hospital bed.

Francis already has his style down. His adorable onesie matched Brewer's outfit and he rocked a full head of dark hair like Frank.

The couple, who recently celebrated their two-year wedding anniversary, announced Ashley's pregnancy in March. Since then, the former ESPN "SportsCenter" anchor has been showing off the progress of her pregnancy on social media, calling it "the absolute greatest season of my life."

The only thing missing from the pics was a little basketball for Francis. That will probably come soon enough.

Baby Francis will soon hear stories all about the greatness of Kaminsky, who's part of a 12-person 2025 Hall of Fame class at UW.

Kaminsky went from backup center his first two years at Wisconsin to being on the cover of every college basketball magazine as a senior and eventually several national Player of the Year awards in 2015.

The 7-foot center was one of the faces and top personalities of college basketball in 2014 and 2015 as he and the Badgers went to back-to-back Final Fours and were national runners-up in 2015.

Kaminsky ranks at the top or among the leaders in many statistical categories for individual game, season and career at Wisconsin.

He had his coming-out party as a junior when he set a program-record 43 points against North Dakota on Nov. 19, 2013. The next season, when Wisconsin went 36-4 and earned the program's first and still only No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, Kaminsky scored 732 points, most ever for a player at Wisconsin. His career shooting percentage of 60.9% still ranks No. 1 in program history and he has the best plus-minus, 13.0, of any player across his career.

Kaminsky, a top-10 draft pick by the Charlotte Hornets in 2015, has played eight years in the NBA, with his last season in 2023. He played in 23 games for the Toronto Raptors' G-League team last season before sustaining a right knee injury in early March that required arthroscopic surgery. He missed the rest of the season.