Nevada basketball: Homecoming of sorts at Staples Center
Credit JaVale McGee for an assist to his former college basketball team as it enters perhaps the most important nonconference game of the season.
The sixth-ranked Nevada Wolf Pack (8-0) faces No. 20 Arizona State (7-0) at 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, in the ESPN2-televised Basketball Hall of Fame Classic at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. A week earlier, McGee donated tickets to the team to watch his NBA club, the Lakers, defeat the Dallas Mavericks in the same venue. Nevada was in LA for a game the next day with USC.
While the Staples Center will look familiar, Nevada hasn’t seen an opponent anything like Arizona State’s squad this year.
Basically, Nevada and Arizona State are mirror images, although the older Wolf Pack players can grow more facial hair. They are both tall, athletic and defensive minded.
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