Jason Williams (basketball, born 1975)
Jason Williams was born in Belle, West Virginia. He played college basketball for Marshall University and the University of Florida. The Sacramento Kings selected him in the first round of the 1998 NBA draft. He also played for the Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat, and Orlando Magic. In 2006, Williams won an NBA championship as the starting point guard for the Miami Heat. The Heat named Williams one of their top 25 Players of All Time in 2007.
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Jason Williams was born in Belle, West Virginia. He played college basketball for Marshall University and the University of Florida. The Sacramento Kings selected him in the first round of the 1998 NBA draft. He also played for the Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat, and Orlando Magic. In 2006, Williams won an NBA championship as the starting point guard for the Miami Heat. Due to his flashy style of play throughout his career, he was given the nickname ‘White Chocolate’ Williams was fined $15,000 in 2001 for allegedly shouting racist slurs at a Golden State Warriors season ticket-holder. The NBA does not release details of violations of the NBA’s anti-drug program. He was named one of the top 25 NBA players of all time in 2007 by the Heat. The Heat named Williams one of their top 25 Players of All Time in 2007. He is a member of the West Virginia Basketball Hall of Fame, which inducted him into the hall of fame in 2010. He has also been named a CNN Sports Personality of the Year for his contributions to the game of basketball in the 1990s and early 2000s. Williams is married to the former Miss West Virginia and has a daughter, Kourtney, and a son, J.T., who was a first-round NBA draft pick in 1998. He won the NBA championship in 2006 as theStarting Point Guard for the Heat, but was later traded to the Vancouver Grizzlies for Mike Bibby and Brent Price.
Williams has been involved in several off-court incidents, including an altercation with a Phoenix Suns columnist in the 2005 NBA playoffs. In 2001, the NBA fined Williams $10,000 for yelling racist slurs to a fan at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, in 2000. Williams was also suspended for the first five games of the 2000–01 NBA season for failure to comply with his treatment obligations under the NBA’s anti- drug program. His number 55 jersey was among the top five sellers of all NBA players that year. In 2002, the Grizzlies’ general manager hired Hubie Brown out of retirement to coach the team. The team won a franchise record 28 wins in Brown’s first season as coach. In 2005, Williams was reportedly involved in an altercation in the playoffs with the Phoenix Suns’ columnist Geoff Calkins, who had alleged that Williams did not care about winning basketball games and had not cared about his wife and kids. Williams later apologized for the incident, and was fined USD 10,000 by the NBA for his alleged comments. The Grizzlies’ record in 2002, 2002, and 2003 was 28 wins, 28 wins and 2 losses. Williams also won the MVP award in the 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 NBA seasons.
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