Duke basketball: Tre Jones apologizes to Blue Devil fans

Duke basketball point guard Tre Jones (Rob Kinnan-USA TODAY Sports)

Duke basketball alum Tre Jones looks like an early leader for G League MVP.

It’s possible that Tre Jones did hold back his athleticism as a two-year starting floor general in Durham. Although he laced ’em up alongside epic Duke basketball rim-rockers in Zion Williamson and Cassius Stanley, he wasn’t exactly a high-flyer himself in college.

But outside of his lack of dunks, any limitations Jones may have put in place certainly neither showed nor diminished his production.

Rather, the former five-star recruit out of Minnesota was a brilliant on-court conductor in 2018-19 for Zion & Friends, despite falling a possession short of…