early in Jones' senior year, Terri Jones made a request that would ultimately result in her son's six-game suspension from Baylor. She asked Jones' AAU coach, Lawrence Johns, for three loans that would allow her to make mortgage payments so she could keep her family in its house and off the streets.
scouts expected he would play one season and then turn pro. (As Joness A.A.U. coach Lawrence Johns put it to me, when I was reporting the story: Come on, man, what would you do? Hell leave. You looked at these draft boards. NBADraft.net. ESPN. Everybodys got him top five. No one expected this