Wallace Jones was a professional basketball player who played Power forward as number 17. Jones’s weight was 225 pounds. Jones’s height was 6 ft 4 in. Jones died on July 27, 2014, in Lexington, Kentucky. Jones was born on July 14, 1926, in Harlan, Kentucky. This article takes a deep dive into Wallace Jones’s net worth.
In high school, Wallace Jones played basketball for Harlan (Harlan, Kentucky). Jones played basketball in college with Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball (1945-1949) and started playing professionally in 1949. In the 1949 draft, Jones was chosen number 8 in round 1 by the Washington Capitols. Jones left the game of basketball in 1952.
Jones played for the Indianapolis Olympians during 1949-1951. Some of the highlights of Wallace Jones’s career included: 2× List of NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball champions, and Consensus second-team NCAA Men’s Basketball All-Americans.
Jones set a career record of 1,428 (10.2 ppg) points, 408 (5.1 rpg) rebounds, and 429 (3.1 apg) assists.
Basketball player salaries can range between a couple thousand dollars and tens of millions of dollars per annum, depending on a number of considerations. Although most professional NBA players earn a salary of almost $2 million, a few with D-league crossover contracts are paid as little as $50,000. The salary cap for National Basketball Association players is nearly $100 million, although as of today no player brings in anywhere near that much money. The top players in the NBA earn approximately $35 million. Outside of the National Basketball Association, yearly earnings can dip below $20,000 per year for minor league teams.
So what was basketball player Wallace Jones’s net worth at the time of death? Our estimate for Wallace Jones’s net worth at death is:
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