Former Oakland, Okemos point guard Johnathon Jones will reportedly play in Germany next season
August 6, 2012 in Professional
From the Twitter feed of MLive reporter Ross Maghielse:
Former
@oaklandu PG Johnathon Jones will play professionally in Germany next season. Played well in Slovakia after leaving@ougrizzlies— Ross Maghielse (@Maghielse) August 5, 2012
As Maghielse said, Jones had a good season in Slovakia, earning all-defense honors and averaging 16.3 points and 5.3 assists per game while shooting 53 percent and 41 percent from 3-point range. He also was named to the all-imports team. No word yet on which club he signed with in Germany, but he did play with former Oakland teammate Derick Nelson in the Moneyball Pro-Am this summer. I was at Moneyball on Saturday and I’ll have a story on Nelson up later this week.
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