Dahntay Jones’ second 10-day contract will expire next week, but Clippers Head Coach Doc Rivers told reporters today that the team will sign Jones for the remainder of the season.
From ESPN Los Angeles, Rivers likes the veteran leadership that Jones brings:
“He’s good everyday, he’s a pro,” Rivers said. “You can’t have enough pros and so he’s been really good. He’s been through playoffs. Guys like that, Sam (Cassell) was telling a story when we signed him at the end of the year that I told him he was going to win one game for us and I said I don’t know when, but he was talking about the (2008 first-round) playoff game in Atlanta where he got hot and won the game for us and then he went in the locker room and said, ‘I’m done. I’ve done my job.’ That’s what a guy like Dahntay can do. It could be one stop, it could be one thing, so you just don’t know.”
Jones has played in eight games for Los Angeles, only totaling 29 minutes of action. The 6”6 swing-man has been around the league for a while.
Drafted out of Duke by the Celtics in the 2003 draft, his rights were immediately traded to the Grizzlies.
Along with playing for Memphis, Jones has played for The Kings, Nuggets, Pacers, Mavericks, and Hawks.
