Robin Jones (basketball)
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Born | St. Louis, Missouri | February 2, 1954
Nationality | American |
Listed height | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) |
Listed weight | 225 lb (102 kg) |
Career information | |
High school | Beaumont (St. Louis, Missouri) |
College | Saint Louis (1972–1975) |
NBA draft | 1975: undrafted |
Position | Power forward |
Number | 34 |
Career history | |
1976–1977 | Portland Trail Blazers |
1977–1978 | Houston Rockets |
1978–1981 | Olympique Antibes |
1981–1982 | Team Talbot, Guildford |
Career highlights and awards | |
Stats at NBA.com | |
Stats at Basketball Reference |
Robin Dale Jones (born February 2, 1954) is an American former professional basketball player.
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]
References
- ^ The 1976-77 NBA champion Portland Trail Blazers: 30 years later, Oregonlive.com, June 4, 2007
External links
Categories:
- 1954 births
- Living people
- African-American basketball players
- American expatriate basketball people in France
- American expatriate basketball people in the United Kingdom
- Basketball players from Missouri
- Houston Rockets players
- Portland Trail Blazers players
- Power forwards (basketball)
- Saint Louis Billikens men's basketball players
- Sportspeople from St. Louis
- Undrafted National Basketball Association players
- American basketball biography, 1950s birth stubs