Kenyon Jones

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Basketball player
Kenyon Jones
Player information
Nickname Kenny XXL
birthday October 12, 1977
place of birth Augusta , United States
date of death August 19, 2005
Place of death Villa Rica , United States
size 209 cm
position Center /
Power Forward
college San Francisco
Clubs as active
1995–1998 UCB Golden Bears ( NCAA ) 1999–2000 USF Dons (NCAA) 2000–2001 STB Le Havre 2001–2002 Panionios Athens 2002 Vaqueros de Bayamón ( BSN ) 2002–2003 GS Marousi 2003 Vaqueros de Bayamón 2003 Panathinaikos Athens 2003–2004 MBK Dynamo Moscow 2004-2005 GS Marousi United StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
FranceFrance
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00000Puerto RicoPuerto Rico
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RussiaRussia
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National team
2002-2005 Macedonia

Kenyon R. Jones (born October 12, 1977 in Augusta , Georgia , † August 19, 2005 in Villa Rica , Georgia) was an American basketball player .

Life

Jones went from his home in Georgia in 1995 to study at the University of California, Berkeley , where he played basketball for the college team Golden Bears in the NCAA's Pac-10 Conference . Here he couldn't quite assert himself and was only a supplementary player for the first three years. For the time of his life, he was struggling with weight problems and before his final year in his NCAA career, Jones moved to the neighboring University of San Francisco , where he took a year off from championship games for the Dons in the West Coast Conference (WCC ) played. Here he was able to play himself in the foreground and was voted Player of the Year at the WCC 2000 in his last year as a college player.

Then Jones started a professional career in 2000, although he was not selected in the 2000 NBA Draft and also did not receive a contract with a club in the national basketball association in his home country with the highest endowment . Jones played his first professional season in the Ligue Nationale de Basket in France for Saint-Thomas Basket from Le Havre . The climber managed in his first league season on the 14th and third from bottom place in the table to keep the league. Then Jones got a contract with Panionios from Athens in the Greek A1 Ethniki for the 2001/02 season , with which he finished the season in fifth place. In the play-offs for the Greek championship they were eliminated in the first round against Iraklis Thessaloniki . In the summer break of 2002 played in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional in Puerto Rico for the vaqueros from Bayamón , who lost the final of the championship against the Leones de Ponce.

For the 2002/03 season, Jones returned to Greece and took Macedonian citizenship. As a result of the Bosman decision , he no longer had a quota of foreigners in almost all European leagues and, because of this lack of restriction, he had even higher earning potential personally. In November 2002 he played under the Macedonian name Kenajn Rasim Dzons in qualifying for the 2003 European Basketball Championship, his first game as a national player for his new adopted country. At club level, he played for Panionios' Athens local rival GS Marousi that season. With this team he reached the play-offs again in sixth place, where they were eliminated in the first round this time against runner-up Olympiacos . After playing again for the Vaqueros in Puerto Rico in the summer of 2003, he got a contract with the Greek champions Panathinaikos Athens at the beginning of the 2003/04 season. However, this was ended prematurely after a few weeks and Jones moved to Russia to Dynamo from Moscow , with whom he reached the play-off semifinal series for the Russian championship.

In the 2004/05 season Jones played again for GS Marousi, who finished second in the main round of the A1 Ethniki, but were eliminated in the play-off semifinal series against AEK Athens . In the second most important European club competition ULEB Cup 2004/05 , they were eliminated in the quarter-finals against their national competitor and later finalist Makedonikos . Then Jones played in the summer of 2005 in the NBA Summer League for the Denver Nuggets to again present clubs from the NBA. On August 19, he died at home in Villa Rica on the outskirts of Atlanta from complications from a heart attack at the age of only 27. He left behind his wife Porsha and a son.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kenyon Jones Obituary. Legacy.com, 2005, accessed January 14, 2014 (based on an obituary notice in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ).
  2. ↑ Associated Press : Kenyon Jones, former West Coast Conference MVP, this in Atlanta. USA Today , August 19, 2005, accessed January 4, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Kenyon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dzons, Kenajn Rasim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Macedonian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Augusta (Georgia) , USA
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2005
Place of death Villa Rica (Georgia) , USA