they call them white chocolate and he is arguably the most creative Pastor in NBA history he was criticized for substance not matching the flashy style but he shut the haters up by winning a championship but was Jason Williams really as good as his highlights white chocolate was a baller from the get-go his father worked and lived on the campus of DuPont high in West Virginia so Jason grew up with the keys to their gym like a kid in a candy store little Jason took advantage of those keys to the fullest he'd go to the gym late at night and spend countless hours working on his ball handling passing and shooting Williams would even put ankle weights on his wrists and wear leather gloves to make his handles quicker and better at the age of four he could already dribble without looking at the ball and when he was seven Jason knew that one day he'd be an NBA player when he started playing for Dupont High School Williams was already notorious for his ball handling he was a star even as a freshman but at the beginning of his sophomore year an even bigger star showed up it was none other than Randy Moss a future NFL Hall of Famer Randy was athlete athletic and talented as they get and on top of playing basketball and Mossing everyone on the football field he was also running track and playing baseball Boston Williams grew up less than a mile apart and were great childhood friends together they formed one of the most dynamic Duos in high school basketball history with Jason's killer dribbling and perfect alley oops and Randy jumping over people and dunking everything in sight the two friends played two years together and in 1994 during Jason's senior year they LED Dupont to the state championship game but even with 17 points 11 assists and 9 rebounds from Jay will and 33 points and 14 rebounds from Moss Dupont lost 79-73 to Martinsburg despite the loss in the finals Williams was named West Virginia Mrbasketball an award that Moss would win a year later in both basketball and football overall Jason averaged 18 points and 10 assists during his high school career and he's the only player in Dupont history to reach 1 000 points and 500 assists after that chase enrolled at Marshall University under coach Billy Donovan and not coincidentally Randy Moss also joined Marshall two years later but this time focusing only on football Williams redshirted his first season and in 1996 as a sophomore he averaged 13. 4 points and 6. 4 assists per game soon after coach Billy Donovan left to coach the Florida Gators and Williams felt a bandit without a coach he trusted Jason decided to leave as well joining Donovan at Florida University even though switching schools meant he'd need to sit out another year as a senior at Florida Williams averaged 17.
1 points 6. 7 assists and 2. 8 steals per game but with success came trouble Williams was an avid weed smoker and after failing a drug test he got suspended for three games when he returned to the court Jason was mad as hell eager to prove that they made a mistake by suspending him against Duquesne he set a School record with 17 assists in a game and in the next game he led Florida to a victory against title favorite Kentucky but just before March Madness Williams got busted again and this time because smoking was a repeated offense Florida had no choice but to suspend him for the rest of the season his friend Randy Moss went through the same thing and also missed one season in college for marijuana use but despite being a certified Stoner who was only six foot one weighing a buck 70 and even though he missed two and a half out of four College Seasons Jason Williams was still in high demand at the 1998 NBA draft Jason was considered the second best point guard in the draft and got selected seventh overall by the Sacramento Kings getting drafted ahead of Dirk nowitzky and Paul Pierce when he finally made it to the NBA Williams immediately became one of the most popular and most exciting players in the league to Jason Williams William crosses over loses Gary drives it into the lane marks the highway off the window up and in Jay will dazzled fans with Fearless drives flashy spins ankle breakers impossible behind the back passes and crazy pull-up three-pointers off the dribble during his rookie year a PR staffer from the Kings dubbed Williams white chocolate because this skinny white boy was playing like he was Straight Out of Compton always pulling the flashiest moves on the court and even though Williams was extremely inefficient even for the 90s standards shooting just 37 from the field and 31 from Deep his uncanny Showmanship brought fans out of their seats and that's all that mattered in the rookie challenge during the 2000 NBA All-Star Weekend Williams made a no look behind the back pass off the elbow to Rafe LaFrance which was one of the best passes in NBA history and something nobody had ever seen before despite his inefficiency Jason had good overall numbers and with the averages of 13 points six assists and two steals per game he ended up second in the Rookie of the Year voting behind Vince Carter the kings were known as one of the biggest losers in the NBA but that all changed with the arrival of Jason Williams vladi divock hey astroyakovich and Chris Webber we'll joined the team for the 1998's 99 season they were also the first NBA team game that used the Princeton offense which is an offensive basketball strategy that emphasizes constant motion backdoor Cuts picks on and off the ball and discipline teamwork it was used and perfected to great success at Princeton University by Coach P Carroll who in 1997 became an assistant for the Kings the Princeton offense fitted like a hand to a glove for the king's two big men Weber and divock who were both amazing passers with Williams playing extremely fast and always pushing the tempo with the ball Sacramento led the NBA in Pace and they became the most attractive team in the NBA but even more importantly than fast pace and flashy passes Sacramento had its first winning season since 1983.
in the first round of the playoffs they ran across the Utah Jazz who came off two finals trips against the Bulls Sacramento was inches away from advancing but John Stockton's game-winning three-pointer pushed the series to the deciding game five playing at home the more experienced Jazz prevailed and won the series but the king showed plenty of Promise next season Sacramento continued to play super fast attacking basketball leading the NBA in Pace points and three-pointers attempted this style was perfect for white chocolate who was among the best Pastors in the league with 7. 5 assists per game for the second year in a row Williams was second in the NBA in three-point attempts but the big problem was that he was making less than 30 percent of his deep shots despite many offensive weapons and great flow of the offense the kings were as thin as paper defensively which again cost them when it was most important Sacramento played Shaq and Kobe's Lakers in the first round and convincingly lost the first two games in La however in Sacramento they managed to fight back and push the series to the deciding game five but in the final game of the series the Lakers trashed the King's 113-86 and Sacramento's defense couldn't cope with prime Shaq despite his many qualities Jason Williams also had a high number of turnovers and poor shooting percentages and Rick Adelman benched him in every fourth quarter of the series when the 2001 season started the kings were stronger than ever their defensive issues were solved by bringing in a lanky small forward Doug Christie and they also added keto Turca glue one of the best European big men from that era the team mastered the Princeton offense to Perfection and the harmony of their offensive sets was fascinating it seemed like they could play with their eyes closed backdoor cuts no look passes alley-oops transition threes the kings were ahead of their time playing an early version of the modern NBA game we see today Chris Webber was playing at the MVP level and finished fourth in MVP voting stojakovich became a permanent starter who averaged over 20 points divock made the All-Star team and Christy made the all-nba defensive team Williams still created a spectacle the flashy style was often at the expense of the substance he was the only player on the team whose statistics decreased and white chocolate averaged only nine points and five assists per game however the Kings again led the NBA in points scored and the defense climbed into the top 10.
