Story by NU Athletic Communications
Former Nebraska basketball standout Keisei Tominaga will make his professional debut this week, as he competes for G League United in a pair of events this month.
G League United, a select squad of current and future G League stars, will host BC Mega MIS, a premier Serbian team known for developing elite NBA talent like three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokić and NBA centers Ivica Zubac and Boban Marjanović, in the NBA G League Fall Invitational. The games are Wednesday, Sept. 4 and Friday, Sept. 6 at 9 p.m. central. The team will also compete in the 2024 FIBA Intercontinental Cup in Singapore from Sept. 12-15.
The games mark the third NBA G League Fall Invitational, which tipped off in 2022 with a pair of games featuring Victor Wembanyama and Metropolitans 92 against NBA G League Ignite.
Tominaga is the only rookie on the 12-member squad and comes off playing for Japan in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Tominaga, who recently signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Indiana Pacers, spent the past three seasons at Nebraska, totaling 1,074 points to rank 30th on Nebraska’s career scoring list while finishing seventh on NU’s career 3-point list with 178. A two-time All-Big Ten honoree, he enjoyed his best season in 2023-24, averaging 15.1 points per game while posting career highs in nearly every offensive category enroute to second-team All-Big Ten honors. His 76 3-pointers in 2023-24 ranked eighth on NU’s single-season chart while he was sixth in the Big Ten in 3-pointers per game. He had a career-high 31 points at Illinois, one of three career 30-point efforts as a Husker. His efforts helped Nebraska to a 23-11 record in 2023-24, a third-place Big Ten finish and the school’s first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2014.