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{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1968)}}
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{{Infobox basketball biography
| name = Jayson Williams
| image = 
| image_size = 
| caption = 
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|2|22}}
| birth_place = Ritter, South Carolina, U.S.
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 9
| weight_lbs = 240
| high_school = [[Christ the King Regional High School|Christ the King]]<br>([[Queens, New York]])
| college = [[St. John's Red Storm men's basketball|St. John's]] (1987–1990)
| draft_year = 1990
| draft_round = 1
| draft_pick = 21
| draft_team = [[Phoenix Suns]]
| career_start = 1990
| career_end = 2000, 2005
| career_position = [[Power forward]] / [[Center (basketball)|center]]
| career_number = 55
| years1 = {{nbay|1990|start}}–{{nbay|1991|end}}
| team1 = [[Philadelphia 76ers]]
| years2 = {{nbay|1992|start}}–{{nbay|1999|end}}
| team2 = [[New Jersey Nets]]
| years3 = 2005
| team3 = [[Idaho Stampede]]
| highlights =
* [[NBA All-Star Game|NBA All-Star]] ({{nasg|1998}})
* Second-team [[List of All-Big East Conference men's basketball teams|All-Big East]] (1989)
| stats_league = NBA
| stat1label = [[Point (basketball)|Points]]
| stat1value = 3,472 (7.3 ppg)
| stat2label = [[Rebound (basketball)|Rebounds]]
| stat2value = 3,584 (7.5 rpg)
| stat3label = [[Assist (basketball)|Assists]]
| stat3value = 287 (0.6 apg)
}}
'''Jayson Williams''' (born February 22, 1968) is an American former professional [[basketball]] player who played in the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA) for eleven seasons, primarily with the [[New Jersey Nets]]. He played his first three seasons with the [[Philadelphia 76ers]], who acquired him in trade with the [[Phoenix Suns]] following the [[1990 NBA draft]]. Williams spent the remainder of his career with the Nets and was an [[NBA All-Star Game|All-Star]] in 1998. He was inducted into the [[New York City Basketball Hall of Fame]] in 2016.

Williams was charged in 2002 with the accidental shooting death of a limousine driver. He pled guilty to [[aggravated assault]] in 2010 and served a 27-month prison sentence.<ref>{{cite web | title=Former NBA star Jayson Williams gets five-year sentence in shooting | website=CNN.com | date=2010-02-24 | url=https://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/23/jayson.williams.sentencing/index.html | access-date=2025-06-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.espn.com/new-york/nba/story/_/id/7809637/jayson-williams-released-rikers-island-jail|title=Retired NBA player Jayson Williams leaves jail|work=ESPN.com|access-date=July 18, 2018}}</ref>

==Early life==
Williams was born in Ritter, South Carolina, to Elijah Joshua "EJ" Williams and Barbara Williams. He is of [[Polish people|Polish]], [[Italians|Italian]] and [[African Americans|African-American]] descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/662/000035557/ |title=Jayson Williams |publisher=NNDB |access-date=January 2, 2012}}</ref> His mother Barbara worked for years at Gouverneur skilled nursing facility in lower Manhattan.<ref name="E J Williams">{{cite web|first=Amanda |last=Brown |publisher=The Star-Ledger |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/11/elijah_joshua_williams_father.html |title=E.J. Williams, father of former Nets star Jayson Williams, dies at 76 |date=November 13, 2009 |access-date=January 2, 2012}}</ref> Raised [[Catholic Church|Catholic]], Williams moved to [[Brooklyn]] at the age of twelve<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nypost.com/2002/02/23/violence-has-been-a-lifelong-teammate/ |title=VIOLENCE HAS BEEN A LIFELONG TEAMMATE |last=Lisi |first=Clemente |date=2002-02-23 |website=[[New York Post]] |access-date=2022-10-28}}</ref> and attended [[Christ The King Regional High School]] and [[St. John's University (New York City)|St. John's University]], both in New York City, and played on the basketball team at both.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Powell |first=Michael |date=2002-03-01 |title=Two Sides of Ex-NBA Star Clash in Shooting Death |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/03/01/two-sides-of-ex-nba-star-clash-in-shooting-death/7d2fac65-ab87-4f10-8a95-2c211910f196/ |access-date=2022-10-23 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

==Professional career==
Williams was selected by the [[Phoenix Suns]] in the first round with the 21st pick of the [[1990 NBA draft]]. His draft rights were thereafter traded by the Suns to the [[Philadelphia 76ers]] for a 1993 first-round draft choice on October 28, 1990. After two seasons as a bench player with the 76ers, Williams was traded to the [[New Jersey Nets]] for conditional draft choices on October 8, 1992.

While with the Nets, Williams only earned 12 starts in his first three seasons with the team before finally earning a full-time starting position in the [[1996–97 NBA season|1996–97 season]]. 

In the first game of the following season, Williams set a franchise record with 17 offensive rebounds (20 total) in a win over the [[Indiana Pacers]].<ref>[https://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/williams_jayson_add.html Williams sets Nets rebounding record]</ref> 

In that 1997–98 [[1997-98 NBA season|season]], Williams was named an All Star. He led the league in offensive rebounds and offensive rebound percentage while also finishing the season in the top five in total rebounds, rebounds per game, total rebound percentage and offensive rating.

===Injury and retirement===
Williams' career came to a sudden end on April 1, 1999, after he broke his right leg in a collision with teammate [[Stephon Marbury]] in a game against the [[Atlanta Hawks]].<ref name="ST">{{cite web | url = https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19990402/2952848/nba-notebook----broken-leg-sidelines-nets-star-williams| title = Broken Leg Sidelines Nets Star Williams
| publisher = Seattle Times | date = April 2, 1999}}</ref> The following day, Williams underwent career-ending surgery in which a plate and five screws were inserted into his leg.<ref name="CT">{{cite web | url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/1999/04/03/nets-make-plans-without-williams/| title = Nets Make Plans Without Williams|work=Chicago Tribune | date = April 3, 1999}}</ref> After sitting out the entire [[1999–2000 NBA season|1999–2000 season]], Williams officially announced his retirement on June 28, 2000, at the age of 32 after 11 seasons.<ref name="DN">{{cite web | url = http://articles.nydailynews.com/keyword/jayson-williams/featured/2| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120503110712/http://articles.nydailynews.com/keyword/jayson-williams/featured/2| url-status = dead| archive-date = May 3, 2012| title = Nets To Announce Jayson Is Retiring|work=New York Daily News | date = June 28, 2000}}</ref> At the time of the injury, Williams was in the first year of a six-year, $90 million contract. 

In 2005, he briefly came out of retirement to play for the [[Idaho Stampede]] of the [[Continental Basketball Association]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=1965506|title=Facing re-trial, Williams joins Idaho team – NBA – ESPN|work=ESPN.com|date=January 12, 2005 |access-date=January 13, 2015}}</ref>

==Legal incidents==
In 1992, Williams was accused of breaking a beer mug over a patron's head at a [[bar (establishment)|saloon]] in Chicago. 

In 1994, Williams was accused of firing a semiautomatic weapon into the parking lot at the [[Meadowlands Sports Complex]]. 

He was never criminally charged in either case.

===The death of Gus Christofi===
On February 14, 2002, 55-year-old [[limousine]] driver Costas "Gus" Christofi was shot and killed at Williams's estate in [[Alexandria Township, New Jersey]].<ref>Hanley, Robert. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E7D71F3CF93AA15751C0A9629C8B63 "Reporter's Notebook; At Former Nets Star's Trial, A Tangle of Contradictions"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 29, 2004. Retrieved December 20, 2007. "Five friends and four Harlem Globetrotters were in various parts of Jayson Williams's country home in Alexandria Township, N.J., when a chauffeur, Costas Christofi, was killed two years ago by a blast from a shotgun held by Mr. Williams."</ref> Christofi had been hired to drive Williams's NBA charity team from a [[Bethlehem, Pennsylvania]], event to his [[mansion]], about {{convert|30|mi|km}} northwest of [[Trenton, New Jersey]]. Members of Williams's NBA charity basketball team were present at the scene. The ''New York Post'' reported that Williams was showing people around his {{convert|30000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} house when he aimed a shotgun at Christofi and killed him.

===Initial trial and appeal===
In April 2004, Williams was acquitted of the more serious charges against him, but the court's jury deadlocked on a charge of reckless [[manslaughter]]. He was convicted on four counts of trying to cover up the shooting.<ref>{{cite web|author=Matt Rainey/The Star-Ledger |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/02/jayson_williams_sentencing_com.html |title=Jayson Williams sentencing comes after lengthy legal battle that spans 8 years |date=February 23, 2010 |publisher=Nj.com |access-date=January 2, 2012}}</ref>

On April 21, 2006, a [[Hunterdon County]] appeals court ruled that Williams could be retried on a reckless [[manslaughter]] charge.<ref>Jones, Richard G. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/nyregion/22williams.html "Ex-Nets Star Faces Retrial for a Shooting at His Home"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 22, 2006, Retrieved April 27, 2009. "Jayson Williams can be retried on a charge of reckless manslaughter stemming from the shooting of a limousine driver in 2002, a New Jersey appeals court ruled on Friday."</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=4433881 | title=Jayson Williams seeks to overturn convictions | date=August 31, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Jennifer Golson/The Star-Ledger |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/the_retrial_of_former_new.html |title=Jayson Williams retrial on hold as state appeals racial slur ruling |publisher=Nj.com |date=January 3, 2008 |access-date=January 2, 2012}}</ref>

===Suicidal agitation===
The [[New York City Police Department]] (NYPD) reported on April 27, 2009, that Williams had become suicidal and violent in a NYC hotel room. Upon entering the [[Manhattan]] hotel room police said that Williams was visibly intoxicated, and that empty bottles of prescription medications were found around the room. Officers stunned him with a taser and took him to a hospital.<ref>Associated Press, [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E4DE143AF93BA15757C0A96F9C8B63 "Former Net Williams Tasered By the Police"], April 28, 2009. Retrieved May 14, 2009.</ref>

===Bar fight===
A few weeks after the NYC tasering incident, on May 24, 2009, Williams allegedly punched a man in the face at a bar in [[Raleigh, North Carolina]]. He was charged with simple assault. The charges were later dropped.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120724114902/http://www1.bet.com/WebApplications/betRoot/Templates/Posting_ArticlePrintFriendly.aspx?%7B2BC158CB-88B0-4014-ADAF-2CE38896BB00%7D "Troubled Jayson Williams Busted for Alleged Assault"]. BET.com</ref>

===Drunken car accident===
A few days before an important courtroom appearance, Williams crashed his Mercedes into a tree in lower Manhattan. He was charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI) after this early morning accident on January 5, 2010.<ref>Baker, Al (January 5, 2010) [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/jayson-williams-in-car-accident/ "Jayson Williams Charged with D.W.I. After Accident"]. ''New York Times ''</ref> 

===Convictions and sentencing===
On January 11, 2010, Williams pleaded guilty to [[aggravated assault]] in the 2002 death of Christofi.<ref>Siemaszko, Corky (January 11, 2010) [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/01/11/2010-01-11_exnets_star_jayson_williams.html Ex-Net Jayson Williams pleads guilty to fatal shooting of driver; faces minimum 18 months in jail]. NY Dailynews</ref> A month later, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison with possible parole after 18 months.<ref>{{cite news|title=Williams to serve at least 18 months|url=https://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=4938372|agency=Associated Press|date=February 23, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/08/jayson_wilkliams_to_transfer_f.html|title=Retired NBA star Jayson Williams to transfer from N.J. prison to Rikers Island|work=NJ.com|date=August 13, 2011 |access-date=January 13, 2015}}</ref> 

He was convicted and sentenced to an additional year in [[Rikers Island]] for the [[DWI]].<ref name="tmz.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/13/jayson-williams-prison-released-rikers-island/|title=Ex-NBA Star Jayson Williams – Released from Rikers Island|work=tmz.com|date=April 13, 2012 |access-date=January 13, 2015}}</ref> of which he served 8 months.<ref name="tmz.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vibe.com/article/breaking-troubled-nba-star-jayson-williams-released-prison|title=BREAKING! Troubled NBA Star Jayson Williams Released From Prison|publisher=Vibe|access-date=January 13, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Deborah Brunswick |title=Former NBA player sentenced to additional year in prison |url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/20/new.jersey.williams.sentence/index.html?iref=NS1 |publisher=[[CNN ok News]] |date=August 20, 2010 |access-date=August 21, 2010}}</ref> 

Williams was ultimately released from prison in April 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/nets/index.ssf/2012/04/jayson_williams_released_from.html|title=Jayson Williams released from prison on Rikers Island|work=NJ.com|date=April 14, 2012 |access-date=January 13, 2015}}</ref>

===Effects of prison===
After being released from his 27 months in prison, Williams told [[ESPN]]: "I don't want to see anybody in a cage, man. Everybody thinks they're so tough... I've never seen a newbie go to jail and not cry the first two months every night, scream and have to get suicide prevention in front of his cell." 

At that time, Williams reported being haunted not only by the shooting but also by how that incident contributed to the death of his own father: "I struggle with the loss of lives. The loss of Mr. Christofi and the loss of my father. An hour doesn't go by that I don't think about [the accident], think about how can I replay this as to bring back Mr. Christofi. And not one person died that night, two people died. My dad had never been in the hospital in 70 years. That's the ripple effect."<ref>[https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/8431391/nba-jayson-williams-interview Jayson Williams speaking freely]</ref>

==Indoor lacrosse==
Williams was the principal owner of the [[New Jersey Storm]] of the [[National Lacrosse League]] (NLL). The franchise operated for two seasons, [[2002 NLL season|2002]] and [[2003 NLL season|2003]], before moving to [[Anaheim, California]], and becoming the [[Anaheim Storm]].

The team went out of business before the start of the [[2006 NLL season|2006 season]].

==Books==
Following his NBA retirement, Williams wrote ''Loose Balls: Easy Money, Hard Fouls, Cheap Laughs and True Love in the NBA'' (not to be confused with the [[Loose Balls]] book revolving around the life and death of the [[American Basketball Association]]), a memoir that was published in 2001.<ref group=book>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/looseballseasymo00will |title=Loose Balls: Easy Money, Hard Fouls, Cheap Laughs and True Love in the NBA |first=Jayson |last=Williams |others=with Steve Friedman |publisher=Doubleday |date=2000 |isbn=038549226X |url-access=registration }}</ref> Intended to be a humorous perspective on his life in the NBA, later readers noted that the book contained nine separate episodes in which Williams behaved recklessly with guns. In one incident, the former [[NFL]] football player [[Wayne Chrebet]] was nearly shot. In another, the uncle of [[Manute Bol]] was threatened with an unloaded handgun.

In 2012, Williams published a second book, an autobiography entitled ''Humbled ~ Letters From Prison''.<ref group=book>{{cite book |title=Humbled ~ Letters From Prison |first=Jayson |last=Williams |publisher=Xulon Press |date=2012 |isbn=978-1622306091}}</ref> The book included revelations about him having been abused as a child.<ref>Dwyer, Kelly (January 30, 2012) [https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/former-star-jayson-williams-moses-rikers-writing-book-200006656.html Former All-Star Jayson Williams, the ‘Moses of Rikers,’ is writing a new book]. ''Yahoo Sports''</ref>

A third book, ''Crashing: A Memoir'', was published in December 2018.<ref group="book">{{cite book |last=Williams |first=Jayson |title=Crashing: A Memoir |publisher=St. Martin's Press |others=with Peter Wilkinson |year=2018 |isbn=978-1250057129}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1996, Williams proposed during halftime of a nationally televised basketball game to model [[Cynthia Bailey]]. The two later parted.

Williams married Kellie Batiste in December 1999; they divorced soon afterward. In 2000, he married Tanya Young and together they had two daughters.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |last1=Gelston |first1=Dan |title=Daughters of Jayson Williams denounce his St. John's HOF nod |url=https://apnews.com/article/jayson-williams-daughters-st-johns-limo-driver-1bd2b9c2041aa90f81a3e6eae37139e8 |website=AP News |date=October 21, 2022 |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=October 21, 2022}}</ref> The couple divorced in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Williams|first1=Brennan|title=Tanya Young Williams, Jayson Williams' Estranged Wife, On 'Basketball Wives,' Domestic Violence|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/19/tanya-young-williams-interview_n_969553.html|website=Huffington Post|access-date=May 9, 2018|date=September 19, 2011}}</ref> Young was a cast member of VH1's reality TV show ''[[Basketball Wives: LA]]''.

Williams' father, Elijah Joshua Williams, died of a stroke at the age of 76 in November 2009.<ref name="E J Williams" /> Williams had three sisters, with two having died from AIDS (one after a blood transfusion following a mugging), while his third sister was killed by her husband in a [[Murder–suicide|murder-suicide]].

== Legacy ==
Williams was inducted into the [[New York City Basketball Hall of Fame]] with the Class of 2016 and into the [[St. John's University (New York City)|St. John's University]] athletics Hall of Fame in 2023.

==NBA career statistics==
{{NBA player statistics legend}}

===Regular season===
{{NBA player statistics start}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1990–91 NBA season|1990–91]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1990–91 Philadelphia 76ers season|Philadelphia]]
| 52 || 1 || 9.8 || .447 || '''.500''' || .661 || 2.1 || .3 || .2 || .1 || 3.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1991–92 NBA season|1991–92]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1991–92 Philadelphia 76ers season|Philadelphia]]
| 50 || 8 || 12.9 || .364 || {{sort|-|—}} || .636 || 2.9 || .2 || .4 || .4 || 4.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1992–93 NBA season|1992–93]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1992–93 New Jersey Nets season|New Jersey]]
| 12 || 2 || 11.6 || .457 || {{sort|-|—}} || .389 || 3.4 || .0 || .3 || .3 || 4.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1993–94 NBA season|1993–94]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1993–94 New Jersey Nets season|New Jersey]]
| 70 || 0 || 12.5 || .427 || {{sort|-|—}} || .605 || 3.8 || .4 || .2 || .5 || 4.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1994–95 NBA season|1994–95]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1994–95 New Jersey Nets season|New Jersey]]
| 75 || 6 || 13.1 || .461 || .000 || .533 || 5.7 || .5 || .3 || .4 || 4.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1995–96 NBA season|1995–96]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1995–96 New Jersey Nets season|New Jersey]]
| '''80''' || 6 || 23.2 || .423 || .286 || .592 || 10.0 || .6 || .4 || .7 || 9.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1996–97 NBA season|1996–97]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1996–97 New Jersey Nets season|New Jersey]]
| 41 || 40 || '''34.9''' || .409 || .000 || .590 || 13.5 || '''1.2''' || .6 || .9 || '''13.4'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1997–98 NBA season|1997–98]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1997–98 New Jersey Nets season|New Jersey]]
| 65 || '''65''' || 36.0 || '''.498''' || .000 || '''.666''' || '''13.6''' || 1.0 || .7 || .8 || 12.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1998–99 NBA season|1998–99]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1998–99 New Jersey Nets season|New Jersey]]
| 30 || 30 || 34.0 || .445 || .000 || .565 || 12.0 || 1.1 || '''.8''' || '''2.0''' || 8.1
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 475 || 158 || 20.6 || .440 || .125 || .606 || 7.5 || .6 || .4 || .6 || 7.3
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|All-Star
| 1 || 0 || 19.0 || .667 || {{sort|-|—}} || {{sort|-|—}} || 10.0 || 1.0 || .0 || .0 || 4.0
{{s-end}}

===Playoffs===
{{NBA player statistics start}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1991 NBA playoffs|1991]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1990–91 Philadelphia 76ers season|Philadelphia]]
| '''4''' || 0 || 2.5 || '''.800''' || {{sort|-|—}} || {{sort|-|—}} || 1.0 || .0 || .0 || .0 || 2.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1994 NBA playoffs|1994]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1993–94 New Jersey Nets season|New Jersey]]
| 2 || 0 || 8.5 || .000 || {{sort|-|—}} || '''.500''' || 1.5 || .0 || .0 || .0 || .5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1998 NBA playoffs|1998]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1997–98 New Jersey Nets season|New Jersey]]
| 3 || '''2''' || '''38.7''' || .429 || {{sort|-|—}} || '''.500''' || '''14.0''' || '''1.7''' || '''.7''' || '''1.0''' || '''7.0'''
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 9 || 2 || 15.9 || .448 || {{sort|-|—}} || .500 || 5.4 || .6 || .2 || .3 || 3.3
{{s-end}}

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Further reading==
{{reflist|group=book}}

==External links==
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