The Santa Cruz Warriors are signing former first-round pick Terrence Jones, a person with knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY Sports. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deal to add the 25-year-old forward won’t be official later this week.

Jones, who was taken 18th overall out of Kentucky by the Houston Rockets in 2012, signed a one-year, $2 million deal with a Chinese Basketball Association team (Qingdao) in July and was waived in late November. Santa Cruz, which is the G-League affiliate of the defending champion Golden State Warriors, has the first claim in the rotating waiver pool by which they will acquire Jones.

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In four seasons with the Rockets and a fifth season that was split between the New Orleans Pelicans (51 games played) and the Milwaukee Bucks (three games), he averaged 10.5 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game.

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