Jay Williams Goes To Austin

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Jay Williams Goes To Austin
8th December, 2006 - 2:46 pm
Press Release -
The Austin Toros of the NBA Development League have acquired guard Jay Williams and waived guard Melvin Scott.

Williams, 6-2, 195, was the second overall selection in the 2002 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls and was the recipient of the 2002 Naismith and Wooden Awards following his final season at Duke, given annually to the nation’s best collegiate basketball player . Williams led Duke to the national championship in 2001 and was a two-time Associated Press first-team All-America selection.

He is continuing his basketball comeback after severing a nerve in his leg, fracturing his pelvis and tearing three of the four main ligaments in his left knee in a motorcycle crash in June of 2003. Williams reports to the Toros on Sunday and will play for former NBA great Dennis Johnson, in his second season as head coach at Austin. [READ]

[gospursgojas]

Cool

[Phenomanul]

Interesting....

Good luck Jay.

[mardigan]

I hope he can get back to where he was, he was a great player and hopefully he can turn it back around. The Toros are going to be good huh?

[ShoogarBear]

Best of luck to him.

[phxspurfan]

some time in the summer when he got released by the Nets I thought "why wouldn't the Spurs try this guy?" Now he's getting play from the NBA again. best of luck.

[timvp]

Somewhere ChumpDumper is celebrating.

[cornbread]

This is the motivation that I've been needing to go see a Toros game. Good news for Austin!

[Mr. Body]

Toros needed a PG, no? Now they just need a James White.

[SilverSpur]

Thats good news. I hope he does well. Maybe he will do well enough that the spurs well invite him to training camp next year. Good luck Jay.

[pablo3po]

wow a real point guard!!! Coach Johnson must feel like he's gone to heaven.

[ChumpDumper]

Even though I don't consider him a true point guard, he's better than nothing, which is what we had before.

BTW, I would've waived Brock Gillespie instead of Melvin Scott. Mel actually got an assist every once in awhile.

And I found out Quannas White is playing for pretty much the best team in the ABA right now in freaking Springdale, Arkansas. I'll have to ask why we didn't take him back--he might be better than Williams at this point.

[wildbill2u]

Why do these guys continue to risk their careers on bikes? You can understand it with some low-grade moron who has no financial future, but this guy graduated from Duke.