Tyus Jones

He was selected with the 24th overall pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers and traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

With Minnesota, he went on to set the NBA single-season assist to turnover ratio record (6.96).

In leading the league for a fourth year in a row for the 2021–22 Memphis Grizzlies, he broke his own assist to turnover single-season record (7.04).

Tyus Robert Jones (born May 10, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Jones earned the role as a varsity starter for Apple Valley High School as an eighth grader for the 2009–10 season.

That year, he averaged 16.8 points per game and 8.1 assists per game, starting every game for a team that went 20–8.

That season he received his first recruiting letter (at age 13) from USC.

As a freshman, he received his first scholarship offer from Iowa.

That season, he averaged 20.1 points, 7.1 assists and 2.6 steals per game in 16 games, after missing 7 weeks due to a lacerated kidney.

Following his freshman season, he was invited to attend separate skills camps hosted by LeBron James and Chris Paul.

However, he was also invited by USA Basketball to the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado to be one of 27 athletes try out for the 12-man FIBA Americas Under-16 Championship team, which he eventually was selected to.

Team USA won the tournament.

By the time he attended the July 2011 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Peach Jam tournament he already had offers from Minnesota and Baylor.

In the days after the four-day tournament that was attended by leading coaches such as Thad Matta, Tom Izzo, Jim Boeheim, Roy Williams, John Calipari, Josh Pastner, Bill Self, Sean Miller and Rick Pitino, he received offers from Ohio State, Michigan State, Marquette, Providence, Arizona and Iowa State.

As a sophomore, he was a unanimous selection as the 2012 Minnesota Associated Press Player of the Year for high school boys basketball and was named to the 2012 Associated Press All-state team along with Siyani Chambers, Joey King, Tyler Vaughan and Johnny Woodard.

Jones' Apple Valley team was eliminated in the MSHSL Class 4A, Section 3 final by Eastview High School.

Jones averaged 28 points and 8 assists in 31 minutes per game.

He earned the 2012 Minnesota Boys Basketball Gatorade Player of the Year.

He was the 2012 Star Tribune Metro Player of the Year in boys' basketball as well as the Pioneer Press' boys basketball player of the year.

By the end of his sophomore season, he had an offer from Duke to go along with his earlier offers from Minnesota, Iowa State, Michigan State, Ohio State, Providence, Arizona, Baylor and Marquette.

Following the season, Jones again played for Team USA at the 2012 FIBA Under-17 World Championship in Kaunas, Lithuania from June 29 – July 8, 2012.

The team went undefeated in 8 games.

Jones entered his 2012–13 junior season as the national class of 2014's top ranked basketball player according to ESPN.

Sports Illustrated columnist Frank Burlison listed him second to Jahlil Okafor on August 16, 2012.

On September 11, when Okafor was named a monthly blogger for USA Today High School Sports, he noted that he and Jones wanted to attend a Michigan State Spartans football game together.

Jones was one of 10 USA Today preseason All-USA selections (along with Aaron Gordon, Andrew Harrison, Aaron Harrison, Kasey Hill, Okafor, Jabari Parker, Julius Randle, Noah Vonleh, Andrew Wiggins).

At the January 5, 2013, Timberwolves Shootout at the Target Center, Jones led Apple Valley on a 31–9 run to overcome an 11-point deficit with 9 minutes and 19 seconds remaining against Rashad Vaughn and Robbinsdale Cooper High School.

He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils in his freshman season as part of the 2014–15 National Championship team.

He was ranked among the top 10 players in the national high school class of 2014 by Rivals.com, Scout.com and ESPN.

He was a Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) Class 4A state champion, three-time Minnesota Associated Press Boys Basketball Player of the Year and three-time Minnesota Boys Basketball Gatorade Player of the Year for Apple Valley High School.

He played in the 2014 McDonald's All-American Boys Game, 2014 Jordan Brand Classic and the 2014 Nike Hoop Summit.

He won the skills competition at the 2014 McDonald's All-American Game and posted the only double-double in the 2014 Jordan Brand Classic.

He committed to the Duke University men's basketball team as a package with Jahlil Okafor.

He was a 2014 USA Today second team All-USA Boys Basketball Team selection.

At Duke, he was an All-ACC third team and All-ACC Freshman first team selection.

The head-to-head matchup of class of 2014 guards Jones and Vaughn was described as "arguably the best individual-to-individual matchup in Minnesota high school basketball history" by the Star Tribune.

He earned NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player during Duke's victory in the championship game of the 2015 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

Subsequently, he announced he would enter the 2015 NBA draft.

The older brother of NBA player Tre Jones, he previously played for his hometown team, the Minnesota Timberwolves for four seasons, before signing with the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2019 offseason.

After 4 seasons with the team, he was traded to the Washington Wizards.