AUSTIN -- There was a time when Andrew Jones never could have imagined sitting in the chair he was in Wednesday morning inside Bellmont Hall at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, addressing the media for the first time since he was diagnosed with leukemia in early January.
After his diagnosis, Jones was unsure when and if he'd ever get to play basketball again. Once an NBA prospect and the second-leading scorer for the Longhorns, he had only one focus at the time -- surviving.
Jones, an Irving MacArthur product, said originally he was to be on a program that wouldn't have let him play basketball for two years.