query: given_name jim chones
supports: Quicken Loans Arena, commonly known as "The Q", is a multi-purpose arena in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The building is the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League, and the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League. It also serves as a secondary arena for Cleveland State Vikings men's and women's basketball. Basketball is a sport that is played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop in diameter and mounted at a height of to backboards at each end of the court. The game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, who would be the first basketball coach of the Kansas Jayhawks, one of the most successful programs in the game's history.  The Arena Football League (AFL) is a professional indoor American football league in the United States. It was founded in 1987 by Jim Foster, making it the third longest-running professional football league in North America, after the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the National Football League (NFL). The AFL plays a proprietary code known as arena football, a form of indoor American football played on a 66-by-28 yard field (about a quarter of the surface area of an NFL field), with rules encouraging offensive performance, resulting in a faster-paced and higher-scoring game. The sport was invented in the early 1980s and patented by Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League (USFL) and the NFL. The American Hockey League (AHL) is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League (NHL). Since the 201011 season, every team in the league has an affiliation agreement with an NHL team; before then, one or two NHL teams would not have an AHL affiliate and so assigned players to AHL teams affiliated with other NHL teams. Twenty-seven AHL teams are located in the United States and the remaining three are in Canada. The league offices are located in Springfield, Massachusetts, and its current president is David Andrews. The Kansas Jayhawks, commonly referred to as KU, are the teams of the athletic department at the University of Kansas. KU is one of three schools in the state of Kansas that participate in NCAA Division I. The Jayhawks are also a member of the Big 12 Conference. University of Kansas athletic teams have won eleven NCAA Division I championships: three in men's basketball, one in men's cross country, three in men's indoor track and field, three in men's outdoor track and field, and one in women's outdoor track and field. The Cleveland Gladiators are an arena football team based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, who play in the Arena Football League (AFL) as part of the AFL National Conference. The Gladiators play their home games at Quicken Loans Arena, which they share with the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association and the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League. The franchise was originally based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and then later in Las Vegas, Nevada, before relocating to Cleveland for the 2008 AFL season. The Gladiators have qualified for the playoffs eight times in their history, reaching the ArenaBowl for the first time in 2014. James Naismith (November 6, 1861  November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, chaplain, sports coach and innovator. He invented the game of basketball at age 30 in 1891. He wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program. Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament (1938) and the NCAA Tournament (1939).  The Cleveland Cavaliers, also known as the Cavs, are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavs compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division. The team began play in 1970. Since 1994, the team has played its home games at Quicken Loans Arena, which is shared with the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League and the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the predominant men's professional basketball league in North America, and is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world. It has 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada), and is an active member of USA Basketball (USAB), which is recognized by FIBA (also known as the International Basketball Federation) as the national governing body for basketball in the United States. The NBA is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. NBA players are the world's best paid sportsmen, by average annual salary per player. James Bernett Chones ( born November 30 , 1949 ) is an American former professional basketball player , and current radio analyst for the Cleveland Cavaliers . A 6 ' 11 `` forward / center , Chones starred at Marquette University , where he earned All - America honors as a junior in 1972 after averaging 20.5 points and 11.9 rebounds per game . When he left Marquette to pursue an NBA career , he was only the second player in NCAA history to leave school for the NBA before his graduating year . Professionally , he first played in the American Basketball Association ( ABA ) with the New York Nets , with whom he was an ABA All - Rookie First Team selection . He also spent a season with the Carolina Cougars . In 1975 , he moved to the National Basketball Association , where he played five seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers , and later won an NBA Championship as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers in 1980 . He retired from basketball in 1982 with combined ABA / NBA totals of 9,821 points and 6,427 rebounds . After retiring from the NBA , Chones spent eleven seasons as the television color analyst for the Cleveland Cavaliers , and in 2007 , returned as a radio postgame analyst . During the 2010 - 2011 season , usual Cavs radio voice Joe Tait missed much of the season as he recovered from surgery / illness . During that time , Chones and WTAM morning co-host / sports director and Cavs pregame / postgame host Mike Snyder formed the interim radio play by play team . Chones became a full - time member of the radio team in the 2011 - 2012 season , working with new play by play announcer John Michael . The Cleveland Monsterspreviously known as the Lake Erie Monstersare a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL) based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The team began play in 2007 and since 2015 has served as the top affiliate of the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Monsters play home games at Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland and have one Calder Cup championship, after winning their first title in 2016.
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answer: jim