Robin Jones (basketball) explained

Robin Jones
Height Ft:6
Height In:9
Weight Lb:225
Birth Date:2 February 1954
Birth Place:St. Louis, Missouri
Nationality:American
Death Place:Chicago, Illinois
High School:Beaumont (St. Louis, Missouri)
College:Saint Louis (1972–1975)
Draft Year:1975
Career Number:34
Career Position:Power forward
Team1:Portland Trail Blazers
Team2:Houston Rockets
Years3:1978–1981
Team3:Olympique Antibes
Years4:1981–1982
Team4:Team Talbot, Guildford
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Robin Dale Jones (February 2, 1954 – July 16, 2018) was an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Saint Louis.

Jones was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He spent two seasons in the NBA, signing as a free agent with the Portland Trail Blazers in 1976. There he came off the bench, playing in 63 games, to help the team to their first ever league title in 1977. The following season, he moved to the Houston Rockets where he played only 12 games. Jones then spent 5 years playing in Europe before returning to the United States where he worked in marketing for Anheuser-Busch. In 1995, he suffered a stroke and retired from Anheuser-Busch the next year as Illinois director of marketing.[1]

Jones died on July 16, 2018, in Chicago.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The 1976-77 NBA champion Portland Trail Blazers: 30 years later. 4 June 2007. Oregonlive.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070930030737/http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/sports/118092033955920.xml&coll=7&thispage=7. 30 September 2007.
  2. News: Former Trail Blazer Robin Jones dies at age 64. July 16, 2018. The Courier-Journal. July 16, 2018. July 18, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180718113712/http://www.kptv.com/story/38658127/former-trail-blazer-robin-jones-dies-at-age-64. dead.