Shamel Jones is a former collegiate basketball player and streetball player. Jones skipped over
St John's University,
UNLV
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada. The campus is about east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the University of Nevada from 1957 to 1969. It includes th ...
, and
TCU to play for
Georgetown.
Jones originally played for the
1996–97 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team and later the
University of Memphis
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The University of Memphis (UofM) is a public research university in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1912, the university has an enrollment of more than 22,000 students.
The university maintains the Herff College of Engineering, the Center for Ea ...
. He took Memphis to the
NIT championships during his time there.
The 6'9 forward originally played for
Paul Robeson HS along with
Lamar Odom
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. He was considered to be a city Basketball legend.
He played basketball in Brazil for
Winner/Kabum Limeira.
He teamed with
James Speedy Williams in streetball tournaments in New York City.
References
Living people
Memphis Tigers men's basketball players
Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in Brazil
American men's basketball players
Year of birth missing (living people)
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