Dominque Jones signs contract with Mavs

[gobulls83]

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Terms of the deal have not been released.

<blockquote><i>The Dallas Mavericks signed first-round draft pick Dominique Jones on Tuesday to a rookie deal.

The 6-foot-4 shooting guard from South Florida was originally the 25th overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies. Mavs owner Mark Cuban paid $3 million to purchase the pick from the Grizzlies on draft night.

Jones is playing on the Mavs' Summer League team in Las Vegas. Through three games, he's averaging 12.7 points on 32.3 percent shooting, but he's doing a good job of drawing fouls and getting to the free throw line, the quality that attracted him to the Mavs.

The Lake Wales , Fla. , native finished his three-year career at South Florida ranked fifth in career scoring (1,797 points), first in free throws attempted (615) and fifth in both field goals made (592) and attempted (1,339). He was named First Team All-Big East as a junior when he averaged 21.4 points, 6.1 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.7 steals per game.

Jones led the Bulls in scoring in each of his three years. He was an honorable mention All-American and a finalist for both the Wooden Award and Naismith Award as a junior and was the only player in the nation to average at least 21 points, six rebounds and three assists per contest. He ranked second in the Big East (15th in the nation) in scoring in his final season with South Florida. </i></blockquote>

[Matt]

Jones is playing on the Mavs' Summer League team in Las Vegas. Through three games, he's averaging 12.7 points on 32.3 percent shooting, but he's doing a good job of drawing fouls and getting to the free throw line, the quality that attracted him to the Mavs.

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if jones can find a way to shoot 85%+ from the foul line he will turn into a corey maggette type player.

[Brad]

Scott has info on the range Dominique is looking at:

According to the 2010-11 NBA rookie pay scale, Jones will earn $925,100 this season and $994,400 in the second season as the No. 25 overall pick in the draft. Jones’ contract is guaranteed for two years and the Mavs hold options for the third and fourth seasons.

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[Jamie]

Worth noting that fouls in the summer league are unlimited, so defenders might be more willing to prevent a three-point play than they would be in a real game where they could get into foul trouble.

[DELdaBull]

$1.9 million. Where are all the people that were saying Jones should stay, stupid decision, blah, blah, blah. I am happy for the guy. Represent USF well.

[smazza]

congrats

[Greg Auman]

Jamie, they're not exactly unlimited -- you just can't foul out. After your sixth, the penalty for fouls escalate -- eventually it's like an intentional, with two shots and the ball after every foul.

[IncrediBULL]

Awesome for Dojo.  Nearly $2M.

He did the right thing.

Stan can use this when trying to attract recuits.  CoOme here, play well, and compete in the best basketball conference, and you can go to the NBA and make crazy money.

[Vega]

Awesome for Dojo.   Nearly $2M.

He did the right thing.

Stan can use this when trying to attract recuits.  CoOme here, play well, and compete in the best basketball conference, and you can go to the NBA and make crazy money.

YES!!!