Warriors’ Damian Jones faces most pivotal month of NBA career
It doesn’t take a basketball savant to appreciate Damian Jones’ upside. At a chiseled 7-foot, 245 pounds, he boasts a 7-foot-3¾-inch wingspan and a 36-inch vertical leap.
The question with Jones has long been whether his intensity, focus and general feel for the game would catch up to his physical tools. For someone so athletic, he has often looked awkward, like he is not yet comfortable in his Herculean frame.
The Warriors saw enough from Jones, 23, in the G League the past two seasons to make room for him in the rotation. Now, with little more than a week until Golden State’s season opener against Oklahoma City, he is facing the most pivotal month of his nascent career.
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