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For Wolf Pack basketball alums, there is professional life after college even if you don’t reach the NBA.
This year, 24 former Nevada standouts are playing at the professional level. Only three of those are in the NBA, with the rest scattershot across the globe. Those 24 alums play in 16 countries and five continents.
Marcus Marshall, for example, is playing in Malaysia. A star for the Wolf Pack last season, Marshall scored a single-game league record 60 points in his debut for the Westports Malaysia Dragons in the ASEAN Basketball League last month.