- Fred Jones
infobox NBA Player
name = Freddy Jones
position =Shooting guard
height_ft = 6 | height_in = 2
weight_lbs = 220
league =NBA
team =Free agent
number = 20
nationality = American
birth_date = birth date and age|1979|3|11
birth_place =Malvern, Arkansas
highschool = Sam Barlow
college = Oregon
draft = 14th overall
draft_year = 2002
draft_team =Indiana Pacers
career_start = 2002
former_teams =Indiana Pacers (2002–2006)Toronto Raptors (2006–2007)Portland Trail Blazers (2007)New York Knicks (2007–2008)
awards = 2004 NBA Slam Dunk Contest ChampionFrederick (Freddy/Fred) Terrell Jones (born
March 11 1979 ) is an American professionalbasketball player who plays at theshooting guard position. As of July 1 2008, Jones became an unrestricted free agent.Early career
Born in
Malvern, Arkansas , he moved to Portland,Oregon in middle school and became the Oregon High School Player of the Year forSam Barlow High School in Gresham, a suburb of Portland. He then went on to play four seasons at theUniversity of Oregon , where, during his senior year, he led the Ducks to theElite Eight , with the help of PGLuke Ridnour and G/FLuke Jackson . While widely considered to be an underachiever during his first three years at Oregon, Jones jumped onto the national radar screen as a senior, becoming a candidate forPac-10 Player of the Year and averaging 18.6 points per game. Fred Jones is known as the primary building block to the recent success of the Oregon Duck basketball program, perErnie Kent .NBA career
Jones was the 14th pick in the
2002 NBA Draft by theIndiana Pacers . He was drafted byIsiah Thomas . He played sparingly as a rookie, averaging only 1.2 points per game in 19 appearances while playing behindReggie Miller . That scoring average increased to nearly 5 points per game in his second year while appearing in 81 games. He more than doubled his averages during the 2004-05 season (to 10.6 ppg), partly due to fellow teammate andsmall forward Ron Artest being suspended for the season for his involvement inThe Malice at The Palace incident. In his first start after the incident, Jones scored a career high 31 points against theOrlando Magic , establishing himself as one of the team's primary scoring weapons in the absence of its stars.In 2004 he won the
NBA Slam Dunk Contest , beating out two-time championJason Richardson . Jones has great leaping ability for a small shooting guard.In the 2006 off-season, the
Toronto Raptors signed Fred Jones. [ [http://dwb.sacbee.com/24hour/sports/basketball/nba/15/story/3337953p-12291736c.htmlFred Jones joins Raptors] , July 26, 2006]On
February 22 2007 , the Raptors traded Jones to thePortland Trail Blazers in exchange for guardJuan Dixon . [ [http://www.nba.com/blazers/news/fred-211975-1218.html BLAZERS: Portland Acquires G/F Fred Jones from Toronto- Send G Juan Dixon to Raptors ] ]Jones, along with
Zach Randolph andDan Dickau , was traded to theNew York Knicks on June 28, 2007 forChanning Frye andSteve Francis . The trade reunited Jones with New York Knicks head coachIsiah Thomas , the man who drafted him.NBA career statistics
Regular season
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align="left" | 2002–03
align="left" | Indiana
19 || 1 || 6.1 || .375 || .286 || .750 || .5 || .3 || .3 || .1 || 1.2
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align="left" | 2003–04
align="left" | Indiana
81 || 2 || 18.6 || .395 || .303 || .832 || 1.6 || 2.1 || .8 || .2 || 4.9
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align="left" | 2004–05
align="left" | Indiana
77 || 14 || 29.5 || .425 || .380 || .850 || 3.1 || 2.5 || .8 || .4 || 10.6
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align="left" | 2005–06
align="left" | Indiana
68 || 2 || 27.0 || .417 || .337 || .763 || 2.5 || 2.3 || .8 || .3 || 9.6
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align="left" | 2006–07
align="left" | Toronto
39 || 9 || 22.3 || .386 || .317 || .830 || 2.1 || 1.4 || .8 || .3 || 7.6
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align="left" | 2006–07
align="left" | Portland
24 || 3 || 18.7 || .384 || .259 || .846 || 1.4 || 2.2 || .8 || .2 || 4.8
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align="left" | 2007–08
align="left" | New York
70 || 26 || 25.1 || .421 || .385 || .746 || 2.4 || 2.4 || .7 || .3 || 7.6
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align="left" | Career
align="left" |
378 || 57 || 23.3 || .412 || .351 || .808 || 2.2 || 2.1 || .8 || .2 || 7.5
###@@@KEYEND@@@###Playoffs
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align="left" | 2003–04
align="left" | Indiana
14 || 0 || 18.8 || .490 || .500 || .714 || 2.4 || 1.1 || .5 || .5 || 4.7
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align="left" | 2004–05
align="left" | Indiana
13 || 0 || 18.0 || .296 || .391 || .923 || 1.8 || 1.0 || .6 || .2 || 4.1
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align="left" | 2005–06
align="left" | Indiana
6 || 1 || 27.8 || .417 || .375 || .917 || 3.3 || 2.5 || 1.0 || .2 || 7.8
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align="left" | Career
align="left" |
33 || 1 || 20.1 || .397 || .426 || .875 || 2.3 || 1.3 || .6 || .3 || 5.0
###@@@KEYEND@@@###References
External links
* [http://www.nba.com/playerfile/fred_jones/ NBA.com Profile - Fred Jones]
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