Nick Jones: Tales of a Pro Basketball Journeyman, 1971

[Nick Jones averaged almost 20 points a game during his senior season at the University of Oregon. That’s what made the Portland Trail Blazers’ decision in the summer of 1970 to cut him really sting. Nick, a 6-foot-2, 190-pound guard known for his all-out speed, would have loved playing in his hometown before friends and family.

Nick called his big broth…