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Article: Miami Heat sign guard Damon Jones to back up Dwyane Wade.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- August 6, 2004
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Byline: Michael Cunningham
MIAMI _ To understand how far guard Damon Jones has come, consider that he calls the International Basketball Association "the lowest of the leagues" in the country, and yet he was a bit player there in 1997.
"I didn't even start in the IBA," Jones said Friday. "I came off the bench."
The IBA isn't around anymore, but Jones is. The Heat signed Jones to a reported one-year contract for $2.5 million with a player option for a second year.
South Florida is the latest stop in Jones' career. After going undrafted out of the University of Houston, spending years scuffling in the lower leagues and hanging on the ...