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Damon Darron Jones is an American former professional basketball player born on the 25th of August 1976. He is best known as a three-point specialist who played for the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2005 to 2008 and was part of the Cavaliers coaching staff that won the 2016 NBA championship.
Jones made 225 three-point field goals during the 2004-2005 season with the Miami Heat, which ranked third in the NBA that year. At the time, that total was tied with Mitch Richmond for the ninth most ever in a single NBA season.
On the 5th of May 2006, in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference first-round series against the Washington Wizards, Jones hit the game-winning shot in overtime to clinch the series four games to two. It sent Cleveland to the second round of the playoffs for the first time since 1993.
On the 23rd of October 2025, Jones was arrested by the FBI in connection with a federal investigation into sports betting and gambling. On the 28th of April 2026, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in an NBA insider trading case and to one count related to a rigged poker game ring, becoming the first of 34 defendants in the case to plead guilty.
Jones played for ten different teams across his career, including New Jersey, Boston, Golden State, Dallas, Vancouver, Detroit, Sacramento, Milwaukee, the Miami Heat, and the Cleveland Cavaliers. His longest stint with any one team was his three years with Cleveland from 2005 to 2008.
Jones joined the Cavaliers coaching staff in 2014 as a shooting consultant and was added to head coach Tyronn Lue's playoff staff in April 2016. The Cavaliers won the championship that year by defeating the Golden State Warriors in seven games, becoming the first team to overcome a 3-1 Finals deficit. Jones was promoted to full-time assistant coach in September 2016.