I think he played for the nets.
2006-07-09 16:00:22 · 8 answers · asked by repplaaayyyy 2 in Sports ➔ Basketball
the first five who answered got the spelling wrong... its JAYSON williams... he played for the nets from 1992 until his retirement in 1999...
Williams was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the first round (21st pick overall) of the 1990 NBA Draft. His draft rights were ultimately traded by the Suns to the Philadelphia 76ers for a 1993 first-round draft choice on October 28, 1990. He was then traded by the 76ers to the New Jersey Nets for conditional draft choices on October 8, 1992. Injuries forced Williams to retire in 1999.
Also in 1992, Williams was accused of smashing a beer mug over a patron's head at a Chicago bar. Two years later, he was accused of firing a semiautomatic weapon into the parking lot at the Meadowlands Sports Complex.
In the spring of 2004, he was tried on charges related to the killing of 55 year old limousine driver Costas Christofi at his estate in New Jersey on February 14, 2002. Christofi had been hired to drive Williams' friends from a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania charity event to the mansion, about 30 miles northwest of Trenton, New Jersey. Published reports have said Williams was playfully twirling a shotgun while giving a tour of his 30,000-square-foot home when the weapon fired, hitting Christofi. At the time of Christofi's death, Williams was working as a studio analyst for The NBA on NBC.
That April, he was acquitted of the most serious charges against him, but the jury deadlocked on a charge of reckless manslaughter, and he currently faces a retrial on that charge. He also faces trial on four charges related to his alleged attempts to cover up the circumstances of the driver's death. News of the shooting was shocking because Williams had an easygoing and humorous reputation. His wife endorsed her husband and her love for him in her website, http://myjaysonwilliams.com/ [1] In January 2005, he began to play professionally again in the Continental Basketball Association. The family of Costas Christofi has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Williams.
On April 21, 2006, an appeals court ruled that Williams can be retried on a reckless manslaughter charge stemming from the shooting death of Christofi.[2]
In 2000, Williams co-wrote with journalist Steve Friedman Loose Balls: Easy Money, Hard Fouls, Cheap Laughs, and True Love in the NBA (ISBN 0767905695). In the autobiography, Williams claimed that he almost shot New York Jets wide receiver Wayne Chrebet while firing a large handgun on his skeet-shooting range
2006-07-09 18:02:53 · answer #1 · answered by JACKASS 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jason Williams
2006-07-09 16:20:27 · answer #2 · answered by icehoundxx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jason Williams
2006-07-09 16:03:26 · answer #3 · answered by Tahmid R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Correct: Jason Williams
2006-07-09 16:04:57 · answer #4 · answered by hjs269 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jason Williams - I think his retrial for manslaughter is coming up soon. I read in the paper that he already paid a huge sum of money to the victim's family so they wouldn't have a civil suit against him.
2006-07-09 17:26:14 · answer #5 · answered by MissRiley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please really, you guys nearly gave me a heart attack. When i saw Jason Williams, I instantly thought of the white one who was on the grizzles and now on the Heat. I didn't think he could of done such of a think, he's a really good player. PLEASE GET YOUR SPELLINGS CORRECT AND BE MORE SPECIFIC. I knew the Jason Wiliiams on the Heat wouldn't do such a thing...GOSH my heart is still beating. I was ready to switch to my desktop and look at Jason (the white one on the Heat) and say oh my gosh, one of the players that I love is a murderer. Thank goodness it was really Jayson Williams and not Jason Williams.
2006-07-10 10:19:26 · answer #6 · answered by dlorey13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
jason william from the nj nets, shot his driver w/ the shotgun..
2006-07-09 19:56:18 · answer #7 · answered by GiZZo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jason Williams. I think it was an accident.
2006-07-09 16:04:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋