Preconceived notions were not part of Derrick Jones Jr.’s thinking when he signed as a free agent with the Mavericks.
His arrival was met with a cold, hard fact even before he got to Dallas.
And it was nothing he hasn’t heard before.
“The conversation I had with coach (Jason) Kidd was that if I was to sign here in free agency, I had to come in and work for everything,” Jones said in Memphis, where the Mavericks spanked the Grizzlies 125-110 Monday night. “I told him that’s what I’ve been doing my whole career.