Jaden Hardy, G League Ignite to play games in Las Vegas

Jaden Hardy is coming home.

The erstwhile Coronado prima shooting defender and his caller team, G League Ignite, are coming to Las Vegas adjacent period to play accumulation games against the Agua Caliente Clippers connected Nov. 10 and 11 astatine Mandalay Bay’s Michelob Ultra Arena, according to radical acquainted with the team’s schedule.

Hardy, a erstwhile five-star recruit, is among the apical prospects eligible for the 2022 NBA draft.

His older bother, Amauri, is besides connected the roster, having signed past month to go the archetypal assemblage subordinate to bash so. The elder Hardy played 3 years astatine UNLV, earning All-Mountain West honors arsenic a junior. He transferred from UNLV aft the 2019-20 play and concluded his assemblage vocation successful the outpouring by helping Oregon reach the NCAA Tournament.

The accumulation games are portion of a caller format for Ignite called the Showcase Cup. The bid separates the 29 G League teams and Ignite into 4 determination pods, successful which they’ll play 12 games against 1 another. The teams with the highest winning percent successful each pod — positive the adjacent 4 champion teams by winning percent — volition play successful a single-elimination tourney astatine the NBA’s yearly G League Winter Showcase.

The wintertime showcases successful 2018 and 2019 were besides contested astatine Mandalay Bay.

Ignite was launched earlier the 2020-21 play arsenic a developmental alternate for apical prospects. Alumni see Houston Rockets defender Jalen Green, Golden State Warriors guardant Jonathan Kuminga, Washington Wizards guardant Isaiah Todd and erstwhile Trinity International standout Daishen Nix, who is playing for the Rockets’ G League affiliate.

The squad is based successful Walnut Creek, California, and unveiled its 2021-22 roster Thursday — 1 time earlier its play opener against the Iowa Wild. Hardy is the apical imaginable and 1 of six who opted to bypass Division I hoops to prosecute nonrecreational development, joining MarJon Beauchamp, Dyson Daniels, Michael Foster, Scoot Henderson and Fanbo Zeng.

Ignite veterans see longtime NBA guardant Amir Johnson and overseas standout Pooh Jeter.

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