South Bay Lakers guard Mac McClung has lengthy been a natural bucket. He’s averaging over 21 issues within the G League, averaged about 15 issues consistent with sport over his years at Georgetown and Texas Tech, and broke Allen Iverson’s single-season Virginia highschool scoring document.
McClung, who used to be rated three-stars, completed his highschool occupation in 2018 by means of environment a Virginia Top Faculty League all-time document of two,801 issues. It didn’t take lengthy for that quantity to be surpassed.
Tyler Nickel, a North Carolina signee out of East Rockingham Top Faculty (Elkton, Va.), broke that mark on Tuesday. His 37-point sport put him at 2,804 issues over his occupation, in line with WHSV.
Reporter TJ Eck posted a video of the dunk that put Nickel above McClung:
Nickel broke out as a sophomore, crossing the 1,000-point occupation mark halfway in the course of the yr, in line with the Harrisonburg Citizen. In a 13-game junior season, he averaged 33.7 issues, 10.1 rebounds and three.9 assists, in line with MaxPreps, serving to to additional identify himself as a authentic prospect. Now ranked a four-star small ahead status at 6-foot-8, Nickel had 18 gives prior to signing with North Carolina.
As a senior, he has scored 50 issues two times and reached the 40-point plateau 8 instances, in line with Maxpreps — the newest coming Friday, when he tacked 41 extra issues onto his document.
East Rockingham wraps up its season Saturday evening, and with a 23-4 document coming into the night time, the workforce will glance to make a postseason run with Nickel on the helm.
In a state that has noticed stars come thru comparable to Iverson, McClung and JJ Redick, Nickel will glance to increase his tally even additional.
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