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2017 Annual JazzFanz All-Time NBA Draft

SG: Sam Jones

[video=youtube_share;jmiARaf4lJs]https://youtu.be/jmiARaf4lJs

Career highlights and awards

• 10× NBA champion (1959–1966, 1968, 1969)
• 5× NBA All-Star (1962, 1964–1966, 1968)
• 3× All-NBA Second Team (1965–1967)
• NBA 25th Anniversary Team
• NBA 50th Anniversary Team
• No. 24 retired by Boston Celtics

Career statistics

Points = 15,411 (17.7 ppg)
Rebounds = 4,305 (4.9 rpg)
Assists = 2,209 (2.5 apg)
 
fishonjazz said:
I have seriously never heard of this dude. No idea who this is
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Did you watch the video's then?? Dude is all HEART!

Bobby Jones was one of the most admired defenders ever to wear an NBA uniform; he was also considered one of the most virtuous. While most other players depended on the occasional thrown elbow, hip-check, or grab of the uniform to gain an advantage, Jones relied on hustle and determination.

Jones's coaches used to marvel that he was so good at the things they had trouble getting many other players to do at all, such as block shots, move without the ball, hustle back on defense, tip passes, dive after loose balls, give up an open outside shot so a teammate could hit from inside—all the things that rarely, if ever, show up in a box score. Jones was as unselfish as a player could be, so much so that coaches had to implore him to take more shots.

What that work added up to was a 12-year pro career that featured eight selections to the NBA All-Defensive First Team; the first-ever NBA Sixth Man Award; membership on the ABA All-Rookie Team; four appearances in the NBA All-Star Game and one in the ABA All-Star Game; and perhaps most prized, an NBA Championship with the Philadelphia 76ers in 1983. Above all, Jones's value as a player was evidenced by the fact that his teams never missed the playoffs.

"Bobby Jones gives you two hours of his blood, showers and goes home," former Sixers General Manager Pat Williams told NBA Today. "If I was going to ask a youngster to model after someone, I would pick Bobby Jones." Added longtime 76ers teammate Julius Erving, "He's a player who's totally selfless, who runs like a deer, jumps like a gazelle, plays with his head and heart each night, and then walks away from the court as if nothing happened."
 
fishonjazz said:
Some of the best passing I have seen in a long long time
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Get excited! 76ers will be DOPE! I'm gonna call it early, that LeBron leaves in Free Agency and joins the 76ers, that way he stays in the East and has the best young talent in the league at his disposal.


As far as picking him goes, his passing is a skill that translates to any level, so the question marks on him aren't as relevant imo as if he was just a pure scorer and untried at NBA level.
 
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