A year ago, Isaiah Whitehead was spending his time on the South Orange, N.J., campus of Seton Hall preparing for the Pirates’ NCAA Tournament opener with Gonzaga.
Monday afternoon, the Nets rookie again planned to spend his time in South Orange — except this time it was to deliver words of wisdom before the ninth-seeded Pirates face eighth-seeded Arkansas on Friday, not to watch film for game-planning.
“They were there with me so there’s not a lot I have to tell them,” Whitehead said of his former teammates. “Really just telling them to play hard and keep doing what they’re doing, but it’s not over.