height_ft statvalue nationality birth_date career_start years draft_year team draft_pick number college stats_league name statlabel high_school weight_lb birth_place draft_team career_end position draft_round letter height_in bbr article_title
6 6,230 -rrb- 911 -lrb- 1.2 apg -rrb- -lrb- 8.1 ppg -rrb- 4,513 -lrb- 5.9 rpg american 27 february 1952 1973 1973 start 1979 -- 1982 end 1983 1983 -- 1984 start -- 1975 end 1976 start -- 1979 1973 atlanta bic trieste -lrb- italy -rrb- hawks houston rockets chicago bulls los angeles lakers 9 13 houston -lrb- 1970 -- 1973 -rrb- nba dwight jones points rebounds assists wheatley -lrb- houston , texas -rrb- 210 houston , texas atlanta hawks 1984 power forward / center 1 j 10 jonesdw01 dwight jones -lrb- basketball -rrb-

dwight jones -lrb- basketball -rrb-

dwight elmo jones -lrb- born february 27 , 1952 -rrb- is a retired american professional basketball player .
a 6 ' 10 '' forward/center , he was the leading scorer and rebounder on the 1972 olympic team that lost the controversial gold medal game to the soviet union .
jones was ejected from the gold medal game after an altercation with a soviet player .
jones attended e.o. smith education center and wheatley high school .
after playing college basketball at the university of houston from 1970 -- 73 , jones was selected as the 9th overall pick in 1973 nba draft by the atlanta hawks .
jones played for ten seasons in the nba from 1973 to 1983 with four teams : atlanta , the houston rockets , the chicago bulls , and the los angeles lakers .
the 6 ft 10 in power forward/center averaged 8.1 points in 766 career regular season games .
his son , dwight jones ii , played at houston baptist university .
a 6-3 guard , jones ii was named the red river athletic conference player of the year in 2005-06 and 2006-07 while also being named an naia all-america both seasons .
