Basketball Hall of Famer K.C. Jones Has Prostate Cancer

Hall of Fame basketball star K.C. Jones, a member of eight NBA championship teams with the Boston Celtics, said he is suffering from prostate cancer.

Jones, 69, said the cancer was detected after a routine checkup several weeks ago.

"I got it, but they caught it early enough," Jones said.

"I always get checkups, and the last time they called me back in and said they wanted to do more testing. What they saw is that there's cancer in there," Jones said. "Now I'm just talking to the doctors. The big thing they're telling me is they got it early. They just have to find the best way to deal with it."

Jones, enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1989, won six NBA titles as a player with the Celtics and two more as coach in 1984 and 1986. He currently is a radio broadcaster for the University of Hartford basketball team.

Other Sources: Boston Herald