Adonis Jordan has played pro basketball not only in the NBA and CBA, but also for teams in Australia, Israel, Venezuela, Korea, Hong Kong, Belarus, Finland, France and Germany.

It seems the 6-foot, 170-pound, 32-year-old point guard has been just about everywhere since bouncing his last basketball for Kansas University during the 1992-93 season.

Tonight, as a member of EA Sports East All-Stars, Jordan likely will be reminded there’s no place like home. He’s certain to receive a thunderous ovation from KU fans, still grateful for Jordan’s Final Four appearances in both 1991 and ’93.

Tipoff for the KU-EA exhibition game is 7 p.m. at Allen Fieldhouse.

“Adonis will get a special reception,” KU coach Roy Williams said of his first marquee recruit.

“No doubt. I think it’ll be crazy,” noted former Jayhawk Kevin Pritchard, the starting point guard in 1989-90, Jordan’s freshman season at KU.

“Adonis was a great teammate and great player here. He worked hard, pushed me in practice. I always felt with Adonis he really wanted to be a great player. I took him under my wing, just like Cedric (Hunter) took me under his wing.

“Adonis has been in the NBA for a cup of coffee (1994, Denver Nuggets). He has gotten paid to play pro ball. He’s had a great career,” added Pritchard, Kansas City Knights’ coach and general manager who lives in Lawrence and will attend tonight’s game.

Jordan, who collected 15 points and five assists against eight turnovers in EA Sports’ 81-80 overtime loss to Missouri on Saturday before 6,787 fans in Columbia, Mo., had hoped to play in Australia this season.

He was cut by the Townsville Crocodiles last month.

“He went there because they had a guard who was hurt,” Williams explained. “I didn’t want the kid to stay hurt, but if he had, it’d have been better for Adonis to play there the whole year. He was healthy so Adonis came back.”

He’ll be back at his alma mater tonight.

“I think he’ll get a great reception,” Williams said of Jordan, who ranks 19th on KU’s overall scoring list and fourth on the all-time assist charts, “then we’re going to try to run his old legs to death. Once you get over 30, it’s hard to run up and down as much as we’re going to try to make him run.”

KU senior guard Kirk Hinrich says it’ll be special sharing the same court with Jordan.

“I have never met Adonis,” Hinrich said. “He’s one of the real good players who played here. It’ll be fun to see where he’s at now and how he plays now.”

Hinrich and fellow senior Nick Collison are even more interested to see how some of KU’s reserves fare tonight.

The Jayhawks have unproven scholarship bench players in Bryant Nash, Michael Lee, Jeff Hawkins, Moulaye Niang and Jeff Graves, plus walk-ons Christian Moody, Stephen Vinson and Brett Olson.

“To me it’ll be interesting to see how much the young guys remember from practice once they get in front of the fans,” Hinrich said. “We’re trying to get the new guys an understanding of what we want to do and go from there.”

Collison believes it might be the most important exhibition game since he’s been here.

“It’s big because we have a lot of guys without game experience,” Collison said. “It’ll be good for our team to get those guys out there and see how they do. Hopefully if they screw up it’ll just be a good experience and if they do well it’ll give them confidence. Either way, it’ll be good for them to be out there.”

Added Williams, “I think it’s a good read on the things. I think it’ll be good to see how they react in front of 16,300 and get a better idea on how certain combinations play together.”

And, of course, it’ll be good to see Jordan. The coach and pupil have remained close throughout the years.

“If it goes five weeks, coach will call me to make sure I’m alive,” Jordan said. “He’ll ask me why I’m slacking and not checking in with him.”

Notes

 Jordan signed with KU even though the Jayhawks were put on probation a week before the signing date during Jordan’s senior year at Cleveland High in Reseda, Calif. Jordan’s high school coach, Bobby Braswell, helped during the process, recommending KU over Seton Hall, UCLA and others.

“Coach Braswell knew coach Williams was somebody I could trust and I thank him for that every day,” Jordan said.

 D.J. Harrison, a 6-7 forward from the University of Colorado, plays for the All-Stars. He scored nine points and grabbed 14 rebounds Saturday at Missouri in 31 minutes. Harrison had words with Drew Gooden in last year’s KU-Colorado game in Boulder, Colo.