Tyus Jones
Tyus Jones was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, United States on May 10th, 1996 and is the Basketball Player. At the age of 28, Tyus Jones biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Tyus Robert Jones (born May 10, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He previously played for the Minnesota Timberwolves from 2015-2019.
He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils in his freshman season as part of the 2014–15 National Championship team.
He was ranked among the top 10 players in the national high school class of 2014 by Rivals.com, Scout.com and ESPN.
He was a Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) Class 4A state champion, three-time Minnesota Associated Press Boys Basketball Player of the Year and three-time Minnesota Boys Basketball Gatorade Player of the Year for Apple Valley High School.
He played in the 2014 McDonald's All-American Boys Game, 2014 Jordan Brand Classic and the 2014 Nike Hoop Summit.
He won the skills competition at the 2014 McDonald's All-American Game and posted the only double-double in the 2014 Jordan Brand Classic. He committed to the Duke University men's basketball team as a package with Jahlil Okafor.
He was a 2014 USA Today second team All-USA Boys Basketball Team selection.
At Duke, he was an All-ACC third team and All-ACC Freshman first team selection.
He earned NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player during Duke's victory in the championship game of the 2015 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
Subsequently, he announced he would enter the 2015 NBA draft.
He was selected with the 24th overall pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers and traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
With Minnesota he went on to set the NBA single-season assist to turnover ratio record.
Personal life
Jones' parents are Rob and Debbie. He has three brothers: Tre, who plays for the San Antonio Spurs, and two half-brothers, Jadee Jones and Reggie Bunch, who also played college basketball in the United States. His parents are divorced. Jones is from a basketball family. His mother, Debbie, also played point guard and led Devils Lake High School to the North Dakota high school championship. Rob Jones, his father, stands at 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) and played for University of Wisconsin–Parkside in the 1980s when they competed at the Division III level. His aunt Darcy Cascaes, DeLaSalle High School's athletic director, earned two high school state championships at Devils Lake and was an all-conference guard for University of North Dakota. Al Nuness, whom Tyus refers to as an uncle, was a captain for Minnesota Gophers basketball in the 1960s. His cousin Jared Nuness was 1997 Minnesota Gatorade player of the year and runner-up Minnesota Mr. Basketball.
Jones was named after Tyus Edney. Jones has been friends with Jahlil Okafor since age 8. Jones played American football quarterback in middle school and was also a respected baseball pitcher and shortstop. Jones has also represented Team USA in youth basketball competitions.
Jones and his longtime girlfriend Carrie Yeakey were engaged before the 2019-20 NBA season. Jones and his fiancée had a son Tyus Jr. on May 5, 2020.
High school career
Jones began his career as a varsity starter for Eastview High School in the 2009-2010 school year. He averaged 16.8 points per game and 8.8 assists per game last year, starting every game for a team that went 20-28. He received his first recruiting letter (at age 13) from the United StatesC this season.
Iowa offered him his first scholarship as a freshman. After missing 7 weeks due to a laced kidney, he averaged 20.1 points, 7.1 assists, and 2.6 steals per game in 16 games this season. He was invited to separate skills camps hosted by LeBron James and Chris Paul following his freshman season. However, he was also welcomed by USA Basketball to the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to be one of 27 athletes competing for the 12-man FIBA Americas Under-16 Championship team, which he later accepted. The tournament was won by Team USA. By the time he attended the 2011 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Peach Jam tournament, he had received offers from Minnesota and Baylor. And even in the days after the four-day tournament was attended by top coaches such as Thad Matta, Tom Izzo, John Calipari, John Calipari, Josh Pastner, Bill Self, Sean Miller, and Rick Pitino, he received offers from Ohio State, Michigan State, Providence, Arizona, and Iowa State.
He was unanimously selected as the 2012 Minnesota Associated Press Player of the Year for high school boys basketball as a sophomore and was voted to the 2012 Associated Press All-state team alongside Siyani Chambers, Joey King, Tyler Vaughan, and Johnny Woodard. By Eastview High School, Jones' Apple Valley team was disqualified from the MSHSL Class 4A, Section 3 final. In 31 minutes per game, Jones averaged 28 points and 8 assists. He was named Minnesota Boys Basketball Gator of the Year in 2012. He was named the year's best basketball player of the year in boys' basketball as well as the year's best boys basketball player of the year. By the end of his sophomore year, he had an invitation from Duke to go along with his previous offers from Minnesota, Iowa State, Michigan State, Ohio State, Providence, Arizona, Baylor, and Marquette. Jones also competed for Team USA at the 2012 FIBA Under-17 World Championship in Kaunas, Lithuania, from June 29 to July 8, 2012. In 8 games, the team was undefeated.
According to ESPN, Jones was in his 2012-2013 junior year as the national class of 2014's top ranked basketball player. Frank Burlison, a sports Illustrated columnist, ranked second to Jahlil Okafor on August 16, 2012. On September 11, when Okafor was named a monthly blogger for USA Today High School Sports, he and Jones announced that together they wanted to attend a Michigan State Spartans football game together. Jones was one of ten top All-USA picks (along with Aaron Gordon, Andrew Harrison, Aaron Harrison, Kasey Hill, Okafor, Jabari Parker, Noah Vonleh, Andrew Wiggins). Jones led Apple Valley to a 31–9 victory over Rashad Vaughn and Robbinsdale Cooper High School at the Target Center on January 5, 2013. According to the Star Tribune, the head-to-head match between 2014 guards Jones and Vaughn was described as "probably the best individual-to-individual matchup in Minnesota high school basketball history." NBA.com had a preview two weeks before the match between the top ten high school players in ESPN's top ten rankings, so the matchup was planned with a news about the game. He was co-winner of the Minnesota Associated Press Player of the Year award for high school boys basketball, with DeLaSalle fellow Reid Travis in DeLaSalle. Jones led Apple Valley to the MSHSL Class 4A championship, while Travis led DeLaSalle to the 3A championship. Anders Broman, Rashad Vaughn, and Graham Woodward were among the Associated Press All-State team members. Jones was named in the 2013 Minnesota Boys Basketball Gatorade Player of the Year and also the year's Outstanding Contributor. Travis was also named Best Basketball Player of the Year in 2013 by the Star Tribune in boys' basketball. Jones was named one of two juniors (along with Okafor) on its first or second five picks of the 2012-13 High School Hardwood All-American teams following the season. Stanley Johnson was the only other junior on the 20-man All-American First Team.
Baylor, Duke, Kentucky, Kansas, Minnesota State, Minnesota, and Ohio State were among Jones' final seven colleges on March 9: Baylor, Duke, Kentucky, Kentucky, Kansas, Michigan State, Minnesota, and Ohio State. Jones had unofficially visited all seven of these schools before his junior year came. In late April 2013, Okafor's father suspected that Okafor and Jones would matriculate as a unit. Cliff Alexander and Justise Winslow had been rumored by late April that they would attend whatever school Jones and Okafor attended.
On May 30, Okafor reduced his list of schools to eight: Arizona, Baylor, Duke, Illinois, Kentucky, Kentucky, Kansas, Michigan State, and Ohio State, which interacted with Jones in six schools. Despite being named as the fifth best student in the class of 2014 by Rivals.com and receiving offers from four of the six schools common to both by the start of June, Alexander said the chances of him matriculating with Jones and Okafor were slim. The uniqueness of the possibility of Okafor and Jones, who are not related and not colleagues, going to college as a package continued to gain a lot of attention as the summer evaluation period progressed. Jones was co-MVP for the 2013 Under Armour Elite 24 All-Star game's winning team. Jones announced on August 13 that he would fly to four schools Baylor from August 27 to 29, Kansas from September 27–20; and Duke from October 25–27. According to Star Tribune writer Amelia Rayno, Duke, which is the most favored of the family, is the last. Jones revealed on August 14 that he might make a fifth official visit to Minnesota (the maximum allowed by the NCAA), but that they remained an unexpected underdog. On August 29, Okafor and Jones were ranked 1–2 in the Rivals.com class of 2014 rankings. Baylor's cousin, Jared Nuness, is one of the Baylor basketball staff and is one of the reasons why the Baylor was a good candidate.
Rivals.com updated their list on September 4, 2013 with Jones dropping from 2nd to 5th (behind Emmanuel Mudiay, Johnson and Alexander) and second in second (behind Mudiay). Okafor and Jones, who are part of a package deal, visited Baylor together and announced that they would tour both Kansas and Duke separately, but not together, as predicted. Tyler Ulis, the 2014 point guard, left Kentucky on September 13 for his fourth visit to the state. Jones' visit to Kentucky on September 27-29 was postponed. During the last two weekends of October, Okafor and Jones were together in visiting Kansas and Duke. Bill Self, the head coach of Kansas, has arranged a second open practice for the weekend of the Okafor/Jones visit. Winslow, ESPN's top prospect, was in Duke for a formal visit the weekend after Okafor and Jones did. Jones and Okafor were linked in a nationally broadcast basketball game on December 12 that may be the first regular season high school basketball game ever broadcast on ESPN from Minnesota, according to rumors at the start of October. ESPN revealed the high school basketball tournament for its family of networks on November 15, and the rumors were confirmed. Jones shortened his list to Baylor, Kansas, and Duke on November 2, and he was still committed to joint matriculation with Okafor on November 2.
In the Mr. Basketball USA preseason poll, Jones was ranked fifth, behind points leader Mudiay, Alexander, Okafor, and Stanley Johnson. He had the most points out of all players without receiving any first place votes. In four of the previous five years, the preseason points champion has gone on to win the award in four of the previous five years. Jones and Okafor simultaneously tweeted on November 11, indicating that they would make simultaneous verbal promises from their local high schools on November 15. His verbal commitment announcement was made on the same date as Alexander and Stanley Johnson. According to ESPN, the four foursome were ranked among the top ten in the national class (Okafor #1, Alexander #3, Jones #4, and Johnson #9). Duke was the strong favorite to land Jones and Okafor on the eve of their announcement. On November 15, he made his verbal pledge to Duke basketball at ESPNU. USA Today selected him to his 10-man All-USA squad, as well as Alexander, Stanley Johnson, Trey Lyles, Mudiay, Malik Newman, Okafor, D'Angelo Russell, and Myles Turner. Winslow pledged to Duke on November 21, giving them the country's highest recruiting class. Jones, Okafor, Winslow, and Grayson Allen were among the students accepted.
Apple Valley set a 5-0 record (including victories over state powerhouses DeLaSalle and Hopkins) and national rankings of 41 by USA Today and 16 by MaxPreps on December 12, while Whitney Young led the game 1–1 with a 34 ranking. Okafor's Whitney Young defeated Jones' Apple Valley 80% on the day, in front of Mike Krzyzewski and ESPN2's national audience. Okafor had 22 points and 15 rebounds, while Jones had 29 points, 5 rebounds, and 6 assists. Jones led Apple Valley over the Kansas defending Class 6A champion Blue Valley High School, who was ranked 18 by USA Today at the time. Despite losing 35 points to Jones after ending his high school career, Apple Valley, the defending state champion, lost in double overtime in the Class 4A Section 3 championship on March 6, 2014.
Jones was the champion of the Skills Competition at the McDonald's All-American Game on March 31. McDonald's All-American Game Jones had 7 points and a game-high 10 assists for the losing east team on April 2, 2014. The east briefly recovered the lead from a 99–95 deficit before losing 105-102. 5 of the 7 points came in the final 2 minutes. In an 84–73 victory over the world team, he recorded a 13-point 5-steal effort on April 12. He had the only double-double in the Jordan Brand Classic on April 18 with ten points, a game-high 12 assists, and 7 rebounds.
Jones was chosen to work with Team USA at the Moda Center on April 12, 2014. He was chosen alongside fellow Duke commitees Okafor and Winslow. The All-American Boys Game at the United Center on April 2, 2014, features the 24-players. He was welcomed as a McDonald's All-American by fellow Minnesotans Reid Travis and Rashad Vaughn, as well as fellow Duke commits Okafor, Winslow, and Grayson Allen. On March 10, he was one of 26 people selected for the Jordan Brand Classic in addition to fellow Minnesotans Travis and Vaughn, as well as fellow Duke commits Okafor, Winslow, and Allen. He was named Associated Press Co-Player of the Year on March 17 (with J. P. Macura). On March 18, he was chosen as one of three finalists for the McDonald's All-American Morgan Wootten National Player of the Year (along with Stanley Johnson and Cliff Alexander). Jones was named Minnesota Mr. Basketball on March 20, 2000. He received his third consecutive Minnesota Gatorade Player of the Year Award the next day. According to MaxPreps, he was a second team All-American Boys Basketball Team selection and a second team All-American.
He was dubbed the best point guard from Minnesota by the summer after his 2010-2011 freshman season, with Khalid El-Amin named as the state's best point guard. Sam Jacobson, another Minnesotan who uses a measuring stick for Jones, is also a Minnesotan. Jones is expected to finish in the top 5 in the country in assists per game, according to Bleacher Report's Kerry Miller, although he does not play for Duke, but he will need to work on his defense.
College career
After the graduation of Tyler Thornton, he was supposed to face senior point guard Quinn Cook and junior guard Rasheed Sulaimon for playing time as he entered his freshman season at Duke. Jones was hoping to be the starting point guard position right away until the season. He was selected by USA Today to its Preseason All-American second team and CBS Sports to its Preseason All-American third team, which was also named by CBS Sports. Jones was ranked at number 45 in the preseason top 100 players poll. Jones was selected to the 36-Man Bob Cousy Award Preseason Watch List. He has also been named as a John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 candidate and a Wayman Tisdale Award Watchlist pick. Jones was also included in the top 50 watch list for December Naismith Award.
Jones started the season with Cook, with Sulaimon coming off the bench. He debuted against Presbyterian on November 14 with 15 points and 7 assists. In the 2014 State Farm Champions Classic, he earned 17 points against #19 Michigan State on November 18. Jones' first career double-double against Army on November 30, 2001, he had a season-high ten assists and 16 points. Jones led the way to an 80-70 victory over #2 Wisconsin in the ACC–Big Ten Challenge, with 22 points, 6 rebounds, and 4 assists, which were all team highs. Jones received the ACC Rookie of the Week and the Wayman Tisdale National Freshman of the Week award for his efforts this week. On January 14, he was listed on the John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 List. Jones set his record high against Pittsburgh on January 19 in Mike Krzyzewski's 999th career win, and he had 22 points against St. John's on January 25, his 1,000th career victory. Jones and Xavier Rathan-Mayes received ACC Co-Rookies of the Week awards as a result of these two performances. In his first Carolina–Duke rivalry game on February 18, Jones tied for a season-high tying and game-high 22 points as well as 8 assists against North Carolina. He scored in the final 1:25 of regulation to force overtime and became the first player in the rivalry to record a total score of 22 points, 8 assists, and 7 rebounds since assists became official statistics in 1983–84. He also received both ACC Rookie of the Week and Wayman Tisdale National Freshman of the Week awards as a result. Jones earned his fourth ACC Freshman of the Week award on March 9, 2014, following a week in which he set a new career high with 24 points in the rematch against North Carolina on March 7.
Jones was voted to the All-ACC third team during the 2014–15 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season, and he was one of a trio of the first to be selected to the All-ACC Freshman first team (along with Okafor and Winslow). He was also selected for its All-America staff by the Associated Press as an honorable mention pick for its All-America team. In the championship game of the 2015 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, he was named Most Valuable Player by scoring 23 points with 5 rebounds. "Tyus Jones Day" was declared by the mayor of Apple Valley in 2015. Jones declared on April 15, 2015 that he would draft the 2015 NBA draft, despite completing his final three years of college eligibility.
Professional career
Jones was chosen with the 24th overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers, who later gave his draft rights to his hometown team, the Minnesota Timberwolves, in exchange for a 2019 second round draft pick and access to Cedi Osman and Rakeem Christmas. He signed his rookie scale with the Timberwolves on July 7, 2015. Jones made his NBA debut against the Charlotte Hornets on November 10, 2009, a first assist, steal, rebound, and point. Jones was assigned by the Timberwolves to the Idaho Stampede, the Utah Jazz's D-League affiliate. After scoring 24.7 points, 3.9 rebounds, 5.0 assists, and 1.5 steals in 35.2 minutes per game in six starts in the D-League, he was recalled by the Timberwolves on December 22. On December 23, he scored 6 points in 20 minutes against the San Antonio Spurs, making his first NBA field goals. Jones will be getting enough playing time to be able to be evaluated by late February, according to head coach Sam Mitchell.
Jones was named MVP of the NBA Summer League in 2016. In the Timberwolves' third game against the Memphis Grizzlies, Jones made his season debut on November 1 with 6 assists. Jones set career highs with 12 points and 5 steals, as well as a career-high tying 5 rebounds, along with a game-high 7 assists against the Brooklyn Nets on November 8. Jones threw his 16 assists against the Houston Rockets on April 12, 2017 in a regular season finale.
Only Jones and Jeff Teague were on point guard at training camp for the 2017-18 Minnesota Timberwolves. Jones averaged 11.3 points, 6.5 assists, and four steals per game over 38.5 minutes when Teague was sidelined for the last four games in November. Jones got his first NBA start against the Phoenix Suns on November 26, 2017 in the second of those four games.
Jones scored his first 10-point, 10-assist double double against the Sacramento Kings on December 17, 2018. Jones finished the year on December 31 with a career-high 13-assist record and a season-high 15 points against the New Orleans Pelicans. Jones had 13 assists against the Oklahoma City Thunder on April 7, tying a career high. Jones had an NBA-record-breaking 6.96 (min 200 assists) single-season contribution to turnover ratio at the end of the season.
After the Timberwolves refused to match the offer sheet, Jones agreed to a three-year contract with the Memphis Grizzlies on July 11, 2019. Jones remained as the NBA assists to turnover ratio king for the 2019-20 NBA season and the 2020-21 NBA season. Jones had a career-high 14 assists against the San Antonio Spurs on February 1, 2021. Ja Morant was born and scored a career-high 27 points against the New Orleans Pelicans on February 15, 2022. Jones had a 7.04 assist to turnover ratio in the 2021-22 NBA season, breaking his own record in the 2021-22 NBA season. With Morant sidelines, the 2021-22 Grizzlies went 20-5 in regular season games, and Jones played 23 of those 25 games.
Jones re-signed with the Grizzlies on a two-year, $30 million deal on July 6, 2022.
International career
Jones was a gold medalist for USA Basketball at both the 2011 FIBA Americas Under-16 Championship and the 2012 FIBA Under-17 World Championship. Jones, who had 28 assists in over 5 games, was the head coach of the U16 team. In eight games, Jones led the team with 43 assists. USA Basketball announced the 21 athletes (including Jones) selected to try out from June 10 to 19 for the 12-member USA national team's June 20-24, 2014 FIBA Americas Under-18 Championship. Jones was one of ten new freshman to be selected. 24 players tried to leave the team, and the roster was reduced to 15 on June 12. Jones completed the final 12 man roster revealed on June 15. Jones, the United States' captain, earned a gold medal in the tournament.