Jason Williams (basketball, born 1975)
Jason Chandler Williams ( born November 18, 1975 in Belle, Virginia ) is a retired American professional basketball player who was active in the NBA. His NBA career began in 1998. After ten years he gave in September 2008 surprisingly announced his retirement. On 19 August 2009 he still signed with the Orlando Magic for a year and then playing for the Memphis Grizzlies. On April 18, 2011 Williams announced his final resignation from professionallen basketball sport. The 1.85 meter tall Williams played on the position of point guard.
College
In his first season ( 1995-96 ) at the Marshall University reached an average of 13.4 ppg ( points per game ) and 6.4 apg ( assists per game ). In 1996, when his coach Billy Donovan moved to the University of Florida as head coach, Williams followed him. In his new team, he was immediately set as the starting point guard and reached in the 1997-98 season average of 17.1 ppg and 6.7 apg. On December 3, 1997 game against Duquesne, he presented with 17 assists on a university record. Still in derselbigen season he was thrown out of school. This was due to his ongoing drug escapades. When asked what he liked most in his college years, he replied: " I cherished getting kicked out of school. " ( I loved to fly from the school. )
Career
After being thrown out of the university, he opted for the NBA Draft to register 1998. He was drawn by the Sacramento Kings in 7th position in the Draft 1998. The Sacramento Kings had next to the rookie Williams also have other quality players in the team; Chris Webber, Vlade Divac, Predrag Stojaković. Thus, the Kings were in this year to a playoff contender. In his first year in the NBA his jersey with the number 55 was in the top 5 of the best selling jerseys. Williams was also nominated for his performance in the first year as a pro in the NBA All - Rookie First Team.
During the 2000-2001 season he was suspended for the first five games of the NBA season because he did not participate in a set up by the League anti-drug program, although he was contractually obliged to do so.
2001 Williams was traded in exchange for Mike Bibby to the Memphis Grizzlies. The team under coach Sidney Lowe the Grizzlies improved tremendously then, was it previously a loser team. 2002 was the general manager Jerry West already located the retired coach Hubie Brown persuaded to train the Grizzlies. The team won 28 games this season and set a franchise record to date on. The Memphis Grizzlies Williams matured gradually become one of the passsichersten point guards in the league. As he increased his point and template rate to 14 and 8, he reduced the number of turnovers at 1.7 per game. However, Williams was with the weak Grizzlies in 4 years never the first round of the playoffs.
In the 2005/06 season, Williams was transferred to the Miami Heat and was part of that Heat team. Coached guru Pat Riley and the star players Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal In this case, Williams was in the Starting Five of the team. Against the Detroit Pistons, he scored in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals, 21 points with 10 goals from 11 attempts. Jason Williams won his first NBA title on June 20, 2006 with the final victory over the Dallas Mavericks to top star Dirk Nowitzki. During the final he reached an average of 12 points and 5 assists.
In the following season, he was still in the initial formation of the team ( 55 games). The Miami Heat reached the playoffs again, but were defeated in the very first round in only four games by the Chicago Bulls and retired from disappointing. Despite all this, Jason Williams was elected in 2007 to one of the 25 best Heat player of all time.
In the summer of 2008 he signed a one year contract with the Los Angeles Clippers. But complete surprise he said shortly after his retirement from the NBA after 10 years of active playing career. The contract with the Clippers was dissolved.
Mid-2009, there were rumors Williams was planning a return to the NBA. Eventually, he signed on 19 August 2009 a contract with the Orlando Magic. There he played a back up of Jameer Nelson a solid season as PG. In early 2011 his contract on the part of Magic, however, was dissolved because it was not planned by the club on with him. Williams then signed a contract for the remainder of the 2010/2011 season with the Memphis Grizzlies, for which he already played from 2001 to 2005. On April 18, 2011, he finally came back from professional sports.
Main features of the career
- June 24, 1998: 7 out of drafted the Sacramento Kings.
- June 27, 2001: Transaction along with Nick Anderson to the Memphis Grizzlies for Mike Bibby and Brent Price.
- August 3, 2005: Transaction to the Miami Heat, as part of a trade of a total of 5 teams.
- August 7, 2008: one-year contract as a free agent with the Los Angeles Clippers
- September 26, 2008: notice of withdrawal from the active sport of basketball in the NBA
- August 19, 2009: Contract signed with the Orlando Magic
Player Profile
From the beginning he was an extremely spectacular player who often in street ball style risky passes ( behind- the-back, no- look, half-court ), Featured assists and aggressive crossover accomplished. With these actions, he was regularly represented in the various top- ten best action of the NBA. He also was known for his three -point throws, which he fired in virtually every area of the pitch. With this way but he was also often leaders in turnovers. In his second and fourth year in the NBA he averaged 3.5 turnovers per game. Also because of these properties he sat at the beginning of his career many times on the bench, when responsibility was needed on the field. In the playoffs of 2000 as he sat in all five games against the Los Angeles Lakers in the fourth quarter on the bench.
Later in his other NBA stops, Memphis and Miami, he put a large extent from its stunning play. After all, he came in his last game 3 years (without his statistics in Orlando ) never above average 1.89 turnovers per game. Thus he reached one of the highest per - Assist - turnover rates in the league. In his first resignation, he had a career average of 11.7 points on average and 6.5 assists per game.
In the Rookie Challenge of the NBA All-Star Weekend 2000, he accomplished one of the most spectacular mountain passes at all. During a fast breaks he pointed a pass behind his back to the right, but played the ball at the elbow of the other arm and fit thus left to Raef LaFrentz. He then replied to questions from reporters: ". I did it so you all would not ask me to ever do it again "
Nickname
Jason Williams was nicknamed the "White chocolate". He got this name in his first year of Stephanie Shepard, a media employee of the Sacramento Kings. Shepard, which itself is dark-skinned, saw him as always the boys from the street ball courts, which incredibly was doing crazy things with the ball. Other nicknames are " J- Will" and " J- Dub".
Private life
Despite its popularity, Williams tries to stand as possible out of the limelight and keeps his personal life rather secret. He spends a lot of time with his family. Williams is married to Denika Kisty and the two have three children. In his spare time he likes most to play by its own account with the PlayStation 3 and like to listen to hip hop. He confesses his Wigger- life setting.
Williams is a close friend of Shaquille O'Neal. With him he has played together with the Miami Heat. O'Neal helped the Heat 2005 consultations, Williams within the mega- trades (5 clubs and 13 players were involved) to get to Miami. Williams wanted to play with Shaq in a team and Shaq himself wanted a guard to a team mate, which was a good addition to Dwyane Wade and incidentally could still play spectacularly at that time.
He has several tattoos on his body: a panther on his right arm, a dragon on his left arm ( was in season 07-08 nachgestochen ) and an eye on his chest. By his own testimony he exactly this helps the eye in his extraordinary passes. Before the season 99-00 he had tattooed a Japanese lettering on his arm, which " insane" ( crazy / insane) meant. This tattoo so far attracted attention because it was covered during the first two games in the 2000 season in Japan with a wristband because it obviously represented something inappropriate in the Japanese written language. Since 2000, he has on his arm a wolf holding a basketball. Furthermore, he has come up sting on his knuckles "White Boy". Since the birth of his children, he also bears their names on his forearms.
Williams played at the high school with today's NFL player Randy Moss together in a team.