Where is Jaylen Nowell?

Pac-12 Player of the Year is chasing his hoops dream, but he's a long way from the Show.

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Former Washington Huskies basketball guard Jaylen Nowell, the reigning Pac-12 Player of the Year, today will wake up in Des Moines, Iowa. 

He's in pro basketball's G-League, as a member of the Iowa Wolves (1-2).

Which is another way of saying hoops obscurity. He's paying his dues. Grinding away.

Knowing all this, do you, the UW fan, think Nowell should have played his junior year with the Huskies, which he passed on? Or was it best for Jaylen to make the early jump to pro basketball?

Of course, the Huskies (2-0) today are playing the Tennessee  Vols in Toronto, Ontario, in a college basketball game found only on a streaming device. More hoops obscurity.

Nowell comes off a 19-point outing in a 130-102 G-League defeat at home to the Agua Caliente Clippers, not to be confused with Steve Balmer's Los Angeles brand. 

Agua Caliente is based in Ontario ... California.

Paid attendance for that classic Agua-Iowa match-up at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines was 3,126.

The 6-foot-4 shooting guard averages 16 per outing in three Iowa games.

Ten days earlier, Nowell made his NBA debut for the Minnesota Timberwolves against the Memphis Grizzlies in Tennessee. The second-round draft pick played one minute of a 137-121 loss. He had no stats of any kind. He was sent out a short time later.

That brief appearance on Nov. 6 officially made him an NBA player forever, joining an elite basketball club. He is the 68th player to make the jump from a Washington high school to the top hoops level, the fifth from Garfield (Conroy, Roy, Williams, Wroten).

Husky Maven will follow Nowell's progress throughout the basketball season.  

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