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This article is about Dontae' Jones, a retired NBA player. For similarly named active NBA player, see Dahntay Jones.
Dontae' Jones Power forward Personal information Date of birth June 2, 1975 Place of birth Nashville, Tennessee Nationality American Listed height 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) Listed weight 220 lb (100 kg) Career information College Mississippi State NBA Draft 1996 / 1st round, (21st pick) Selected by the New York Knicks Pro career 1997–2006 Career history 1997–1998 Boston Celtics Career statistics Points 44 Assists 5 Rebounds 9 Stats at NBA.com Dontae' Antijuaine Jones (born June 2, 1975 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American professional basketball player, formerly of the Boston Celtics of the NBA.
Jones was named Most Valuable Player of the 1996 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament after leading Mississippi State University in their win over top-ranked University of Kentucky in the SEC tournament championship game. Later that year he led Mississippi State to the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four, picking up a Regional MVP honor along the way.
He was selected out of Mississippi State University as the 21st pick by the New York Knicks in the 1996 NBA Draft but was traded, along with Walter McCarty, John Thomas and Scott Brooks to the Celtics in exchange for Chris Mills shortly before the 1997-98 season began (he had previously taken part in no games in 1996-97 with the Knicks due to a foot injury).
After his NBA season, Jones played for the Memphis Houn'Dawgs in the ABA, and in Greece, Turkey, Italy, Korea and China.
An apostrophe was intentionally placed on the end of his first name by his mother for distinctiveness.[1]
Notes
- ^ Where Are They Now?, by Stefan Fatsis, Staff Reporter, The Wall Street Journal DOC (68 KiB)
External links
- Dontae' Jones at NBA.com
- Dontae' Jones at Basketball-Reference.com
- Basketpedya.com Player Profile
1996 NBA Draft First round Allen Iverson · Marcus Camby · Shareef Abdur-Rahim · Stephon Marbury · Ray Allen · Antoine Walker · Lorenzen Wright · Kerry Kittles · Samaki Walker · Erick Dampier · Todd Fuller · Vitaly Potapenko · Kobe Bryant · Predrag Stojaković · Steve Nash · Tony Delk · Jermaine O'Neal · John Wallace · Walter McCarty · Žydrūnas Ilgauskas · Dontae' Jones · Roy Rogers · Efthimios Rentzias · Derek Fisher · Martin Müürsepp · Jerome Williams · Brian Evans · Priest Lauderdale · Travis KnightSecond round Othella Harrington · Mark Hendrickson · Ryan Minor · Moochie Norris · Shawn Harvey · Joseph Blair · Doron Sheffer · Jeff McInnis · Steve Hamer · Russ Millard · Marcus Mann · Jason Sasser · Randy Livingston · Ben Davis · Malik Rose · Joe Vogel · Marcus Brown · Ron Riley · Jamie Feick · Amal McCaskill · Terrell Bell · Chris Robinson · Mark Pope · Jeff Nordgaard · Shandon Anderson · Ronnie Henderson · Reggie Geary · Drew Barry · Darnell RobinsonCategories:- 1975 births
- Living people
- African American basketball players
- American expatriate basketball people in China
- American expatriate basketball people in Greece
- American expatriate basketball people in Italy
- American expatriate basketball people in South Korea
- American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
- Apollon Patras B.C. players
- Basketball players from Tennessee
- Boston Celtics players
- Junior college men's basketball players in the United States
- Mississippi State Bulldogs basketball players
- New York Knicks draft picks
- People from Nashville, Tennessee
- Small forwards
- Korean Basketball League players
- American basketball biography, 1970s birth stubs
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