{"id":19756,"date":"2015-04-17T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T22:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19756"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:46:08","slug":"dominique-jones-joins-the-harlem-globetrotters-in-action-friday-in-kearney-neb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19756","title":{"rendered":"Dominique Jones joins the Harlem Globetrotters &#8211; in action Friday in Kearney, Neb."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Former standout Tiger Basketball player Dominique Jones has recently joined the Harlem Globetrotters and will be in action on Friday night \u00a0in Kearney, Nebraska at the Viaero Event Center. Jones, a native of Harlem, N.Y., joins the world famous team with the nickname of &#8220;Hot Shot&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>\nOne of the top point guards in FHSU men&#8217;s basketball history, Jones played two years at FHSU from 2009-2011. He was a State Farm\/NABC All-America selection as a senior in 2010-11, one of just 16 players nationally selected to the team. That season, he helped the Tigers reach as high as No. 3 in the national rankings, an MIAA Tournament Championship, and the semifinals of the South Central Regional in the MIAA Tournament. As a senior, he averaged 17.9 points and 6.3 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly scoring 1,000 points in his two-year career at FHSU, Jones had 983 career points with the Tigers, helping the team to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances. He averaged 5.1 assists per game in his career, which ranks fourth in school history, and had a total of 324, which ranks sixth all-time. Known for his one-handed free-throw shooting style, Jones shot 80 percent at the charity stripe in his career, which is fifth-best in school history. He also shot 40.2 percent from beyond the 3-point line in his career as a Tiger, draining 132 shots from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p>Jones is one of three All-America selections to play under current FHSU head coach <dfn><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhsuathletics.com\/coaches.aspx?rc=396&amp;elinkdata=44468\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"396\">Mark Johnson<\/a><\/dfn> and one of 25 All-America selections all time in FHSU Men&#8217;s Basketball history.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former standout Tiger Basketball player Dominique Jones has recently joined the Harlem Globetrotters and will be in action on Friday night \u00a0in Kearney, Nebraska at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":19763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7349],"tags":[5732,2372,4917,5733,775],"class_list":["post-19756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-dominique-jones","tag-fhsu-basketball","tag-fort-hays-basketball","tag-harlem-globetrotters","tag-mark-johnson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rp_primary_dominique_jones_globetrotters-2.jpg?fit=720%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19765,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19756\/revisions\/19765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}