Phil Jones (basketball)

This article is about Virgin Islands basketball player. For New Zealand basketball player, see Phill Jones.
Phil Jones
Free agent
Position Power forward / Center
Personal information
Born September 2, 1985
Nashville, Tennessee
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)
Listed weight 259.6 lb (118 kg)
Career information
High school Laurinburg Institute
(Laurinburg, North Carolina)
College Charlotte (2007–2011)
NBA draft 2011 / Undrafted
Pro career 2011–present
Career history
2011 Atlético Aguada
2012 U BT Cluj-Napoca
2012–2013 Los Angeles D-Fenders
2014 Island Storm

Phillip Michael "Phil" Jones (born September 2, 1985) is a Virgin Islands professional basketball player. He played college basketball at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and has played internationally for the U.S. Virgin Islands national basketball team. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Jones spent part of his childhood growing up in the Virgin Islands.

Jones committed to the 49ers out of Laurinburg Prep School in North Carolina after he spent a year at the school after graduating from high school in Philadelphia. Ranked as a top 100 recruit by several publications, he averaged 19 points, 10.2 rebounds, and 5.3 blocks per game while leading the school to the Prep National Championship.

As a first-year sophomore for the 49ers, he averaged 3.3 points and 2.9 rebounds a game while playing 13.4 minutes per game off the bench to the 49ers. He improved in his junior season, 2008–09, averaging 7.3 points, 4 rebounds, and 1.4 blocks per game for the team.

Jones competed on the U.S. Virgin Islands national basketball team for the first time at the FIBA Americas Championship 2009. He averaged 8.5 points and 4.8 rebounds per game in four games for the team, including a team-high 18 points and seven rebounds in a preliminary round loss to Puerto Rico.[1]

References

  1. ↑ FIBA profile

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