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Article: SECOND GEM FROM GEORGIA\Freshman Jones proving to be valuable sub rebounder for Cal.(SPORTS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- January 28, 1996
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Byline: Jay Heater Contra Costa Times
When you picture Cal freshman Kenyon Jones, who coach Todd Bozeman says "takes up a lot of space," you see the ideal enforcer for the middle.
Six-feet-10, 265 pounds of squash-their-post-player muscle.
Now consider Jones as a thin Beach High School freshman back in Savannah, Ga., with a tennis racket in his hand, wearing white shorts, one of those floppy white hats and tiptoeing along the baseline.
"I never wore those white shorts," said Jones, whose laugh is a common sound around the Harmon Gym these days. "But I used to play tennis as a youngster until ninth grade. I didn't think much of ...