Askia Rahman Jones

Personal information
Born	(1971-12-03) December 3, 1971 (age 52) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nationality	African American / Venezuelan
Listed height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Listed weight	200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
High school	Marshall (San Antonio, Texas)
College	Kansas State (1990–1994)
NBA draft	1994: undrafted
Playing career	1994–2010
Position	Shooting guard
Number	2
Career history
1994	Minnesota Timberwolves
1994–1995	Rockford Lightning
1995	Illiabum Clube
1995	Aspac Jakarta
1995–1997	Rio Claro Basquete
1996–2001	Guaiqueríes de Margarita
1997	Polluelos de Aibonito
1997–1998	Apollon Limassol
1998–1999	Flamengo
1999–2000	Joventut Badalona
2001	Los Barrios
2001–2002	Shell Turbo Chargers
2002–2004	Trotamundos de Carabobo
2005–2009	Gaiteros del Zulia
2010	Guaros de Lara
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Askia Rahman Jones (born December 3, 1971) is an American-Venezuelan retired professional basketball player, a 6'5" (1.96 m) shooting guard. During his college years, Askia displayed his exceptional 3-point shooting ability in a memorable game against Fresno, where he broke records by scoring an astounding 62 points in just 29 minutes. Although he went undrafted in the NBA, he did have the opportunity to showcase his skills in eleven games for the Minnesota Timberwolves, where he averaged an impressive 11 points per game. This marked the beginning of his prominent 25-year basketball career, which took him to nine different countries. This remarkable feat solidified his reputation as a player with incredible scoring prowess. Currently residing in Florida, Jones is happily married to Emma Gonzalez, a Florida native of Cuban-Puerto Rican descent and an executive for a large healthcare system. It is also worth noting that Jones comes from basketball lineage, as his father Wali Jones was a championship-winning player for the Philadelphia 76ers.

Basketball career

A Kansas State University graduate born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jones left college as the third-leading scorer in its history. He finished his four-year college career averaging 14.8 points a game.

His scoring prowess was demonstrated on March 24, 1994, when he scored sixty-two points in only twenty-eight minutes against Fresno State in the 1994 NIT quarterfinals, the second-highest postseason scoring total in college basketball history.^[1] The fourteen three-point field goals scored by Jones in that game are a postseason record.^[2] He was also the first to make 14 against a NCAA Division I opponent.^{[citation needed]}

He is also the last Division I men's player to date to have a sixty-point regulation game; the only other players since then to score sixty points, Eddie House in 2000 and Ben Woodside in 2008, respectively required two and three overtimes.

The son of former National Basketball Association player Wali Jones,^[2] Jones, after brief spell with the Minnesota Timberwolves in 1994–95, took his game to Venezuela, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, Portugal, Cyprus and Spain, in a professional career spanning almost two decades.

He eventually received Venezuelan citizenship and played with Venezuela national basketball team in the 2005 FIBA Americas Championship, winning the bronze medal.