[8][9] He would work out after school with Hazzard, under the supervision of future hall of fame coach John Chaney, who was their gym teacher at Overbrook.

[13] Jones earned the Philadelphia Big 5 Player of the Year award (the Robert V. Geasey Trophy) for 1963 and 1964,[5][4] and was named a 3rd-Team All-American as a senior by United Press International.

[14] Before ever playing for the Pistons, Jones was traded along with fellow rookie Les Hunter and veterans Bailey Howell (a future hall of fame inductee), Don Ohl and Bob Ferry to the Baltimore Bullets for Terry Dischinger, Rod Thorn, and Don Kojis.

[16] His Bullets teammates included future hall of fame players Walt Bellamy and Gus Johnson.

[13] Jones and Hal Greer were the starting guards on the title-winning 1966–67 76ers team that also featured Chamberlain, Chet Walker, Lucious Jackson, Billy Cunningham, and fellow Villanovan Bill Melchionni.

[18] Jones made the 76ers' starting lineup at point guard after Larry Costello tore his Achilles tendon on January 6, 1967.

[21] During the 1968 playoffs, before the start of the Eastern Division Finals against the Boston Celtics, news broke of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Several 76ers, including Jones and Chamberlain, were vocally opposed to playing the game; however, they were outvoted by the rest of the team, a decision he regrets.

[13] Jones' son Askia[25] is the fourth-leading scorer in Kansas State University basketball history (as of 2024)[26] and played briefly in the NBA himself, with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

[5] While still playing for the Philadelphia 76ers, Jones founded Concerned Athletes in Action (CAIA) that ran youth camps and drug-prevention clinics in urban Black communities.

[3][5][28] Fellow Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame inductee Ken Hamilton works with Jones on Shoot for the Stars.

[34] In 2022, a group of present and former Philadelphia Inquirer sports writers ranked Jones as the twenty-first greatest Sixer of all time.