{{short description|American basketball player}} {{Other people|Charles Jones}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{infobox basketball biography | name = Charles Jones | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|7|17}} | birth_place = [[Brooklyn|Brooklyn, New York]], U.S. | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 3 | weight_lbs = 180 | high_school = [[Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School|Bishop Ford Central Catholic]]<br/>(Brooklyn, New York) | college = *[[Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's basketball|Rutgers]] (1993–1995) *[[LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds men's basketball|LIU Brooklyn]] (1996–1998) | draft_year = 1998 | career_start = 1999 | career_end = 2010 | career_number = 11, 2 | career_position = [[Point guard]] / [[shooting guard]] | years1 = {{nbay|1998|end}} | team1 = [[Chicago Bulls]] | years2 = {{nbay|1999|full=y}} | team2 = [[Los Angeles Clippers]] | years3 = 2000–2001 | team3 = [[RB Montecatini Terme|BingoSNAI Montecatini]] | years4 = 2001–2002 | team4 = [[Ionikos N.F. B.C.|Ionikos Egnatia Bank]] | years5 = 2003 | team5 = [[Brooklyn Kings (basketball)|Brooklyn Kings]] | years6 = 2003 | team6 = [[Maccabi Rishon LeZion (basketball)|Maccabi Rishon LeZion]] | years7 = 2003–2004 | team7 = [[Libertad de Sunchales]] | years8 = 2004–2005 | team8 = [[PBC Lukoil Academic]] | years9 = 2005 | team9 = [[Albany Patroons]] | years10 = 2005–2006 | team10 = [[Gimnasia y Esgrima de Comodoro Rivadavia]] | years11 = 2006 | team11 = Long Island Primetime | years12 = 2006–2008 | team12 = Gimnasia y Esgrima de Comodoro Rivadavia | years13 = 2008 | team13 = [[Ciclista Olímpico]] | years14 = 2009 | team14 = [[BC Levski Sofia]] | years15 = 2010 | team15 = Gimnasia y Esgrima de Comodoro Rivadavia | highlights = * [[National Basketball League (Bulgaria)|Bulgarian League]] champion (2005) * [[Bulgarian Basketball Cup|Bulgarian Cup]] champion (2009) * [[Liga Nacional Basket(Argentina)|Liga Nacional de Básquet]] champion (2006) * [[Liga Nacional Basket(Argentina)|Liga Nacional de Básquet]] Allstar (2006, 2007) * 2× [[List of NCAA Division I men's basketball season scoring leaders|NCAA scoring champion]] (1997, 1998) * [[Haggerty Award]] winner (1997) * 2× [[Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year|NEC Player of the Year]] (1997, 1998) * 2× First-team All-[[Northeast Conference|NEC]] (1997, 1998) * Second team All-America [[Adidas Blue Ribbon]] (1997-1998) * Second team [[National Association of Basketball Coaches|NABC]] (1997-1998) }} '''Charles Rahmel Jones''' (born July 17, 1975) is an American former professional [[basketball]] player who played in the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA) for the [[Chicago Bulls]] and [[Los Angeles Clippers]].
==Biography== Raised in [[Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]], Jones was one of two children of Charles and Cathy Jones and graduated from [[Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School]] in 1993. His brother [[Lamont Jones (basketball, born 1972)|Lamont Jones]] is also a basketball player. In 1997, Jones estimated to ''[[The New York Times]]'' that around 15 of his friends from Bedford-Stuyvesant were killed on the streets.<ref>{{cite news|last=Berkow|first=Ira|title=All the Potential a Faithful Mother Can Foster|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/19/sports/all-the-potential-a-faithful-mother-can-foster.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=August 31, 2012|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 19, 1997}}</ref> He played at [[The Soul in the Hole]] in Brooklyn.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.slamonline.com/other-ballers/streetball/original-old-school-a-new-york-tradition/|title = Original Old School: A New York Tradition|date = July 2009}}</ref>
Jones attended [[Rutgers University]] and [[Long Island University]], before spending two seasons in the NBA for the [[Chicago Bulls]] (1998–99) and the [[Los Angeles Clippers]] (1999–2000). He would later decline a contracts before signing in [[Italy]]. Due to a fracture of his shooting hand, he would continue to play abroad despite never receiving therapy, notable stops in [[Greece]], [[Bulgaria]] & [[Argentina]]. When League & cup titles in [[Bulgaria]] & a league title in [[Argentina]]
While playing for [[Long Island University]], he led the league in scoring during the 1996–97 and 1997–98 seasons. In the 1996–97 season he averaged 30.1 points per game, becoming the last player to average at least 30 points in a season until [[Marcus Keene]] reached that mark in 2016–17.<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://www.si.com/nba/2014/11/13/asphalt-legends-rick-telander-si-60.html|title = Asphalt Legends: Pickup basketball in New York City| magazine = Sports Illustrated|date = 13 November 2014|last1 = Telander|first1 = Rick}}</ref> During his senior season he ranked among the top ten in [[NCAA Division I]] men's basketball in several categories, finishing fifth in assists and ninth in steals while leading his conference in points per game, assists per game, and steals per game. He set several school and conference records for scoring and remains among the most statistically productive players in the program’s history.<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://vault.si.com/vault/1997/11/24/justice-and-mr-jones-the-ncaa-suspended-charles-jones-for-that-most-heinous-crime-too-much-summer-ball|title = JUSTICE AND MR. JONES THE NCAA SUSPENDED CHARLES JONES FOR THAT MOST HEINOUS CRIME: TOO MUCH SUMMER BALL| magazine = Sports Illustrated|date = 24 November 1997|last1 = Telander|first1 = Rick}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{Basketballstats |nba= 1869 |bbr= j/jonesch03 }}
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