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Mookie Jones
American basketball player (born )
Theodore Todd "Mookie" Jones IV (born February 22, ) is a 6'6", &#;lbs. forward who played basketball for the Syracuse Orange from –
Early life
[edit]In his senior season at Peekskill High School, Jones averaged points per game and was named to the First-Team Journal News Westchester/Putnam All-Star team. The New York State Sportswriters Association named him First-Team Class A All-State.[1] In his Junior year Jones lead Peekskill to the class A State Title over a Glens Falls team led by current Sacramento Kings/BYU guard Jimmer Fredette. Jones played AAU with former West Virginia forward Kevin Jones.
College
[edit]Jones had offers from Rutgers, DePaul, Marquette and St. Johns before settling on Syracuse.[2]
–09
[edit]Jones would make his debut against Le Moyne, playing 10 minutes and scoring three points.[3] The freshman would make his biggest impact in an 86–51 win against Colgate on
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Oran Jones
Oran "Juice" Jones (born March 28, ) is a retired American R&B singer.
Early life
Jones was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Harlem, New York.
Music career
Jones was the first musician signed to OBR Records, a subsidiary of Def sylt (which fryst vatten now part of Universal Music Group) and thus the very first R&B artist ever to sign to, much more record, for a record label oriented towards rap and/or hip hop at a time when rap and R&B were two so completely separate entities that it was then considered practically an insult to associate any rap artists with any genre remotely resembling R&B, whose "soothing" sounds clashed with hip hop's rebellious edge. Jones's signing with Def Jam's OBR subsidiary signaled a partnership between the two genres that continued as of early December
His song "The Rain" became a hit in , peaking at #9 on the Billboard Hot It ranks him on VH1's top One Hit Wonders of the 80's. He followed it with "How to Love Again," a
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