Kenny Jones (basketball)

Kenneth Terrell Jones (born July 22, 1984) is an American professional basketball player who formerly played for Hindú Club de Resistencia Chaco of the Torneo Nacional de Ascenso (TNA), the second-best league in Argentina.

Kenny Jones
No. 13 – deportivo Viedma
PositionPower forward
LeagueLiga Argentina de basket
Personal information
Born (1984-07-22) July 22, 1984
Wyandanch, New York
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight215 lb (98 kg)
Career information
High schoolWyandanch (Wyandanch, New York)
CollegeKentucky State (2004–2008)
NBA draft2008 / Undrafted
Playing career2008–present
Career history
2008–2010Kentucky Bisons
2010–11Bluegrass Stallions
2011–12Dachau Spurs
2012Tinguiririca San Fernando
2013Saint John Mill Rats
2013Trigueros de Ciudad Obregón
2013–2014Instituto Córdoba
2014–2015Saint John Mill Rats
2015Fuerza Guinda de Nogales
2015–2016Hindú Club de Resistencia Chaco
2016Fuerza Guinda de Nogales
2016–2018Hindú Club de Resistencia Chaco
2018–2019Cape Breton Highlanders
2019-presentdeportivo Viedma
Career highlights and awards
  • All- TNA Second Team (2018)
  • All- TNA Import Team (2017)
  • All-TNA First Team (2017)
  • All-CIBACOPA Second Team (2015)
  • All-NBL Canada Second Team (2015)
  • NBL Canada scoring champion (2015)
  • TNA Player of the Year (2014)
  • TNA Import Player of the Year (2014)
  • All-TNA First Team (2014)
  • CIBACOPA Player of the Year (2013)
  • CIBACOPA Import Player of the Year (2013)
  • All-CIBACOPA First Team (2013)
  • All-LNB First Team (2012)
  • LNB Forward of the year (2012)
  • Regionalliga Player of the Year (2012)
  • PBL Newcomer of the Year (2011)
  • All-PBL Second Team (2011)
  • All-ABA Second Team (2010)
  • All-ABA First Team (2009)
  • ABA champion (2009)

College career

Jones originally committed to play college basketball for Saint Paul's in Virginia, but did not like it there and left after two months. He later came into contact with Kentucky State University recruiter Charles Coleman who got him to play for the college in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) of the NCAA Division II.[1] Staying there from 2004 to 2008, he was selected on the SIAC First Team, named SIAC men's basketball MVP and earned a Division II All-America honourable mention for his senior season.[2]

Professional career

He stayed in Kentucky after graduating, signing with the ABA's Kentucky Bisons. He spent two seasons with the Bisons, winning the ABA in 2009 and earning All-Star honours in 2008–09 and 2009–10.[3] He then spent the 2010–11 with another Kentucky team, the Bluegrass Stallions of the Premier Basketball League.[4]

The American moved to Germany in 2011, playing the 2011–12 1. Regionalliga Südost (third division) season with the Dachau Spurs.[4] His next stop was in the Chilean Dimayor with Tinguiririca San Fernando, playing the 2012 season from September,[5] to November when his team lost in the playoff semifinals.[6]

On 24 January 2013, Jones signed with the Saint John Mill Rats of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL Canada).[7] He debuted that same day against the Moncton Miracles, scoring 25 points and grabbing 6 rebounds. Averaging 22.7 points and 8.4 rebounds per game in the 17 games he played,[8] he earned Player of the Week honours for the week ending 17 March 2013.[9] He added a selection to the NBL Canada All-Playoff Team at the end of the season,[10] and was also nominated for the All-Star Game in April but he had left the country by that time.[11]

Meanwhile, he had joined Trigueros de Ciudad Obregón in the Mexican regional Circuito de Baloncesto de la Costa del Pacífico (CIBACOPA) for the 2013 season lasting from April to July. He finished as league top scorer with over 25 points per game, also making the league All-Star Game.[12][13] His next stop was in the Argentinian second division TNA, as he signed with Instituto Atlético Central Córdoba in September 2013.[14] At the end of the season in May 2014, he was selected by Latinbasket.com as their choice for the league's best player and import player of the year.[15]

Jones re-signed with Saint John in September 2014.[16] He was named to the All-NBL Canada Team at the end of the 2014–15 season. He helped the Mill Rats reach the playoff semifinals, but was powerless to prevent them from losing the series to the Island Storm, despite scoring 28 points and grabbing a game-high 11 rebounds in the decisive game.[17] The Mill Rats placed Jones on their protected list in late May, meaning no other NBL Canada team can approach him for contract negotiations before the start of training camp for the 2015-16 NBL Canada season.[18]

Having been selected in the second round of the 2015 CIBACOPA draft by Fuerza Guinda de Nogales,[19] Jones joined the team from May to play another season in the Mexican league.[12] He had averages of 20.1 points and 7.4 rebounds for Fuerza Guinda,[13] helping the team reach the championship finals, but they were punished 56–80 by the Tijuana Zonkeys in game 7 on 24 July 2015 to concede the title, with Jones posting a team high 15 points.[20] He finished the season averaging 19.9 points, 7.4 rebounds, 2.4 assists, and 1.2 steals per game.[21]

On 17 October 2015, Jones signed with Hindú Club de Resistencia Chaco, returning to the TNA in Argentina.[21]

References
  1. Rickerd, Brian (27 February 2007). "There's no I in team". State-Journal.com. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  2. "KSU's Kenny Jones Earns All-American Honors" (PDF). KYSU.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 May 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  3. Pascucci, Gianni (19 March 2010). "Eurobasket news report (3/19/2010) - ABA names 2009-2010 All-Star teams". Eurobasket.com. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  4. Korff, Moritz (16 July 2011). "Eurobasket news report (7/16/2011) - Dachau Spurs sign Kenny Jones". Eurobasket.com. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  5. Valencia, Daniel (24 September 2012). "Eurobasket news report (9/24/2012) - Dimayor 2012: Round 1 results". Eurobasket.com. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  6. Gajardo Torres, Daniel (18 November 2012). "Tinguiririca perdió ante Universidad de Concepción y se quedó sin final de la Dimayor" [Tinguiririca lost to Universidad de Concepción and stays away from the Dimayor final]. elTipografo.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  7. "NBL Canada Transactions in 2012 – 2013 Season". NBLCanada.com. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  8. "# 00 Kenny Jones - 2012-13 Season Stats". MillRatsBasketball.ca. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  9. "Mill Rats' Kenny Jones Named the Recharge with Milk Player of the Week". OurSportsCentral.com. Toronto (Ontario): National Basketball League of Canada. 17 March 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  10. "NBL Canada 2013-14 Preseason Media Guide" (PDF). NBLCanada.com. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  11. "2013 NBL Canada All Stars named". Toronto (Ontario): National Basketball League of Canada. 2 April 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  12. "Jones is back at Nogales". Latinbasket.com. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  13. "Player Profile - Kenny Jones". SportingPulse.com. CIBACOPA. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  14. "Jones, un norteamericano en el básquet albirrojo" [Jones, a North American for the red and white basketball [club]]. InstitutoAtleticoCentralCordoba.com (in Spanish). 18 September 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  15. Obradovic, Igor (18 May 2015). "Eurobasket news report (5/18/2014) - Latinbasket.com All-Argentinian TNA Awards 2014". Eurobasket.com.
  16. McCarthy, Tiffany (14 September 2014). "All Star Forward 'The Big Ticket' Kenny Jones Returns to Saint John". MillRatsBasketball.ca.
  17. Reid, Charles (12 March 2015). "Storm moving on after dramatic finish to deciding game". JournalPioneer.com. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  18. "Lightning protected list for 2015-2016 season". LightningBasketball.ca. 29 May 2015. Archived from the original on 11 September 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  19. Leyva, Jorge (9 March 2015). "Draft Cibacopa 2015". CIBACOPA.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  20. Clark, Jonathan (24 July 2015). "Fuerza Guinda's title quest ends in Game 7". NogalesInternational.com. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  21. "Hindu signs Kenny Jones, ex Nogales". Eurobasket.com. 17 October 2015. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
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