Fred Jones

This article is about the basketball player. For other people with the same name, see Fred Jones (disambiguation). Fred Jones Image:Fredjones.jpgPosition Shooting guardHeight 6 ft 2 in(1.88 m) Weight 220 lb(100 kg) League NBATeam New York KnicksJersey #2 Born March 11, 1979(1979-03-11) (age 29)
Malvern, ArkansasNationality AmericanHigh school Sam BarlowCollege OregonDraft 14th overall, 2002
Indiana PacersPro career 2002–present Former teams Indiana Pacers (2002–2006)
Toronto Raptors(2006–2007)
Portland Trail Blazers(2007) Awards 2004 NBA Slam Dunk Contest Champion Official profile Info Page

Frederick (Fred) Terrell Jones (born March 11, 1979) is an American professional basketball player who plays at the shooting guard position for the New York Knicks of the NBA.

1 Early career
2 NBA career
3 References
4 External links

Early career

Born in Malvern, Arkansas, he moved to Portland, Oregon in middle school and became the Oregon High School Player of the Year for Sam Barlow High School in Gresham, a suburb of Portland. He then went on to play four seasons at the University of Oregon, where, during his senior year, he led the Ducks to the Elite Eight, with the help of PG Luke Ridnour (Seattle Supersonics) and G/F Luke Jackson (Miami Heat). 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 for Pac-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, per Ernie Kent.

NBA career

Jones was the 14th pick in the 2002 NBA Draft by the Indiana Pacers. He was drafted by Isiah Thomas. He played sparingly as a rookie, averaging only 1.2 points per game in 19 appearances while playing behind Reggie 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 and shooting guard Ron Artest being suspended for the season for his involvement in The Malice at The Palace incident. In his first start after the incident, Jones scored a career high 31 points against the Orlando 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 champion Jason Richardson. Jones has great leaping ability for a small shooting guard.

In the 2006 off-season, the Toronto Raptors signed Fred Jones.[1]

On February 22, 2007, the Raptors traded Jones to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for guard Juan Dixon.[2]

Jones, along with Zach Randolph and Dan Dickau, was traded to the New York Knicks on June 28, 2007 for Channing Frye and Steve Francis. The trade reunited Jones with New York Knicks head coach Isiah Thomas, the man who drafted him.