Alabama basketball's Herbert Jones declares for NBA Draft without agent

Alabama basketball saw a third starter test the NBA Draft waters on Saturday as Herbert Jones announced via Instagram that he declared for the draft without an agent. Earlier this week, Kira Lewis Jr. and John Petty Jr. also declared for the draft without agents.

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Jones, who recently finished his junior season with the Crimson Tide, was named to the SEC’s all-defensive team earlier this month. The 6-foot-7, 205-pound forward was Alabama’s leader with 593 Blue Collar Points — the metric the team uses to measure effort and hustle plays — and also topped the team in charges taken (22), deflections (84) and floor dives (31). He averaged 7.9 points and 6.4 rebounds per game while shooting 48.4 percent from the floor.

Jones missed what amounted to nearly five full games due to injuries last season, including a fractured wrist that forced him to wear a cast on his dominant left arm. He started Alabama’s final seven games with the cast.

“Coming into the year, there were really three guys,” Alabama head coach Nate Oats said during a teleconference last week. “I think now Herb’s injury has kind of slowed his development down. We’ve been recruiting guys to Kira, Herb and Petty all year. I think Herb, with all the injuries he’s had, I think he needs to come back and have an unbelievable year for us, and then I think he can play his way into something really good. I just think we’re recruiting as if they’re not going to be here. If they happen to come back here then we’ll address that situation when that happens.”

Because Jones is not hiring an agent, he will have until June 15 at 4 p.m.CT to decide whether he wants to withdraw his name and be eligible to play his senior season at Alabama.

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