Jones was named MVP of the 1996 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament after leading Mississippi State University in their win over top-ranked University of Kentucky in the SEC tournament championship game. Later that year he led Mississippi State to the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four, picking up a Regional MVP honor along the way. After his NBA season, Jones played for the Memphis Houn'Dawgs in American Basketball Association (21st century), and in Greece, Turkey, Italy and Korea. An apostrophe was intentionally placed on the end of his first name by his mother for distinctiveness.