{"id":24798,"date":"2023-04-05T21:29:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/bulls-guard-named-g-league-mvp\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T21:29:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:29:16","slug":"bulls-guard-named-g-league-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/bulls-guard-named-g-league-mvp\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls guard named G League MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"ac_72688137\">\n<div class=\"froala-view custom-theme \">\n<p>Jones joined the Windy City Bulls in the fall after spending the preseason on Chicago\u2019s roster. His strong play at the G League level earned him a two-way contract <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2022\/12\/bulls-waive-kostas-antetokounmpo-sign-carlik-jones-to-two-way-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in December<\/a> and then a promotion to the Bulls\u2019 15-man roster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2023\/03\/bulls-to-convert-carlik-jones-to-standard-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about a month ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jones has only made four brief appearances at the NBA level this season, but he put up big numbers in the NBAGL.<\/p>\n<p>In 19 Showcase Cup games in the fall, the 25-year-old averaged 20.3 PPG, 7.3 APG, and 5.4 RPG with a .494\/.387\/.683 shooting line in 35.9 minutes per night. He boosted his scoring average to 26.1 PPG on .483\/.360\/.789 shooting in 24 regular season contests (38.3 MPG) while also contributing 7.0 APG and 4.4 RPG.<\/p>\n<p>Windy City made it to the finals of the Showcase Cup in December and then went 18-14 in the G League regular season, including 15-9 when Jones played.<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019 contract with Chicago includes non-guaranteed salaries for 2023-24 and 2024-25, so the Bulls will be able to keep him on their NBA roster at the veteran\u2019s minimum for two seasons beyond this one if they so choose.<\/p>\n<p>The runners-up in MVP voting were Kings center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/q\/quetane01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-04-05_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neemias Queta<\/a> and Nets guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dukeda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-04-05_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Duke<\/a>, who are both on two-way contracts. They finished second and third, respectively.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\tjs.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=125075807517358\";\n\t\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/bulls_guard_named_g_league_mvp\/s1_14822_38664187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jones joined the Windy City Bulls in the fall after spending the preseason on Chicago\u2019s roster. His strong play at the G League level earned him a two-way contract in December and then a promotion to the Bulls\u2019 15-man roster about a month ago. Jones has only made four brief appearances at the NBA level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}