On April 10, Beijing time, Webb State senior forward Dillon Jones announced on social media that he would participate in the 2024 NBA Draft, striving to become the second Webb State player to be drafted in the first round of the NBA after Damion Lillard.
Dillon Jones
Jones, from South Carolina, is 6-6 (1.98 meters), weighs 233 pounds, has an arm span of 6-11, averaged 20.8 points, 9.8 rebounds and 5.2 assists per game in his senior season, won the Big Sky League Player of the Year, he will sign with Roc Nation Sports Agency, and was invited to participate in the Chicago United tryout last year for his excellent performance in the elite training camp of the G League.
Dillon Jones
Every year, mid-major players make their mark in the first round at tryouts, with Blandin Podemski and Ben Shepard in 2023, Jalen Williams and David Roddy in 2022, Sandy Aldama in 2021, Dillon Jones in the 2024 NBA Draft, the second player in the last 25 years to average more than 20 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists per game, and Evan Turner in 2010.
Dillon Jones
Jones' selling point will be scoring and passing, he plays power forward or even small ball center, Jones has had very few dunks and blocks this season, physicality is not his strong suit, but he is the kind of forward with a high basketball IQ who dribbles and passes and shoots, which is becoming more and more popular in today's NBA, and the template may be an NBA player like Grant Williams.