Also in other sports:mlbJimmy Jones (P · 1986–1993), nhlJimmy Jones (C · 1978–1980).

PG/SGWashingtonNBA🌅 Early Bloomer · 1969

Jimmy Jones

6'4" · 188 lbsBorn January 1, 19451968–1977College: Grambling StateDraft: 1967 · Rd 2, Pick 13 · Baltimore Bullets

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.

NBA profile

Peak 3Y VAL

15.4

1969, 1973, 1974 avg

Career VAL

87.3

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

74.4

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

53% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

9 seasons · peak 17.9 in 1969

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 96.0th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#9Breakout seasons· 1969of 150

Boards that rank NBA careers

NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VAL NBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High Leaps NBA Career Arc Types NBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categories NBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the Playoffs NBA Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape NBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-Bust NBA Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One Scale NBA Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern Terms NBA Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every Team NBA Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (All Positions)

Similar careers

Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.

Where this data comes from

Box scores, rosters, and draft data (2002+) come from sportsdataverse's hoopR release. College, international, and pre-2002 per-game rows are backfilled additively from Wikipedia.

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Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	VAL
1968	22–23	New Orleans (ABA)	78	—	41.7	46.7%	22.2%	70.9%	5.7	2.3	—	—	18.8	5.4
1969	23–24	New Orleans (ABA)	77	—	41.4	53.5%	14.3%	80.5%	5.7	5.7	—	—	26.6	17.9
1970	24–25	New Orleans (ABA)	70	—	35.9	49.7%	0.0%	81.0%	4.5	4.9	—	—	20.7	9.1
1971	25–26	Memphis (ABA)	80	—	37.6	48.6%	57.1%	77.8%	4.8	5.9	—	—	19.6	10.8
1972	26–27	Utah (ABA)	78	—	37.2	51.2%	16.7%	77.9%	4.8	6.2	—	—	15.5	11.1
1973	27–28	Utah (ABA)	80	—	35.6	52.3%	0.0%	79.9%	4.2	5.6	—	—	16.7	11.9
1974	28–29	Utah (ABA)	83	—	38.1	55.0%	0.0%	88.4%	4.3	5.2	1.9	0.4	16.8	16.3
1975	29–30	WSB	73	—	19.5	51.8%	—	72.5%	5.2	1.9	1.0	0.1	7.1	3.1
1976	30–31	WSB	64	—	17.7	49.7%	—	76.6%	2.0	1.9	0.5	0.1	5.9	1.7
1977	31–32	WSB	3	—	11.0	33.3%	—	50.0%	1.3	0.3	0.7	0.0	2.0	—