THE SITE HAS BEEN UPDATED AND MOVED EVERYONE! YOU CAN STILL VISIT THIS ONE IF YOU WANT, BUT THERE'S REALLY NO REASON TO. HERE'S THE URL FOR THE NEW SITE: CLICK HERE
SORRY I HAVEN'T UPDATED IN SO LONG, I'M GOING TO START PUTING IN A LOT OF UPDATES SOON. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE TRIED TO E-MAIL ME MY ADDRESS HAS CHANGED, I'VE UPDATED IT ON THE "CONTACT US" LINK. ALSO, I'VE UPDATED THE "PURCHASE KINGS GAMES" LINK IN "THE JASON WILLIAMS STORE" AREA OF THIS SITE. ALL OF THE GAMES FROM THIS YEAR EXCEPT TWO HAVE BEEN ADDED.
This web site is devoted to the Sacramento Kings young, great point-guard known as Jason Williams. His name is synonymous with flash, he is our generation's Pete Maravich, but he is more than that. To watch Jason Williams with a basketball, would be like watching Monet with a brush, because you are seeing a great artist at work. Basketball is art to Jason Williams, but for him the court is his canvas and the ball his brush. Win or lose the fans always get their money's worth when they come and see Williams play; as he never ceases to amaze with his uncanny passing and ball handling skills. There is nothing he won't try, weather it be pulling up from 30 ft. with 19 secs. left on the shot clock, or throwing a full court alley-oop pass, his game knows no boundaries, and his heart has no fear. Jason Williams is a rarity these days; he's someone who plays the game for the love of it, not for the money, and not because he's supposed to. Lord knows he's not supposed to; standing at a shade over 6 feet, with skin as white as snow, and a southern accent thicker than a McDonald's milk shake, Jason Williams looks and sounds more like a farmer than a basketball player. But that is one of the things that makes him so intriguing; he's the last guy you would expect to be doing the things that he does. He's the underdog who made it, the one who didn't listen to all the racial stereotypes, who didn't listen when people told him he was too small to play basketball, he just went out and played, the same way he plays now: without a conscience. And in doing so, he is helping to break one of the many racial stereotypes that plagues our society. White men can't jump? Just look at Jason Williams and the way he is able to dunk with such power and ease. White guys aren't quick enough for the NBA? Just look at Jason Williams who is one of the quickest players in the league today. All great, white players play a basic style of game like Bird and Stockton? Just look at Jason Williams, basic is not even in his vocabulary, he can make the most simple of plays look pretty. In short, he is dispelling all the myths about white players, and at the same time giving a lot of kids confidence that they never before had. Much like Tiger Woods did for golf and African-Americans, Jason Williams is doing for basketball and Caucasians. He's giving them someone they can look up to and emulate, someone who looks like them that doesn't have a 7 foot frame. Already his influence on kids is starting to show; it's showing in the name of Brett Nelson. Nelson is also a West Virginia native, and grew up only twenty minutes from Jason's home town of Belle, West Virginia. He grew up watching and idolizing Williams, trying to emulate him, and now Nelson is a highschool senior and ranked as one of the top two point guards in the country (along with, and ironically enough, another Jason Williams who will attend Duke.) Nelson is by far the flashiest player of this years incoming college recruits, some consider him a carbon copy of Jason on the basketball court. And like Williams, Nelson will go to Florida and play under head coach Billy Donovan. That's what makes Jason Williams style of play so special; it's contagious. It's contagious not only for the people who watch him play, but even more so for his teammates and his opponents. You could just see the way his style and energy rubbed off on his teammates in Sacramento; the fast break, non-stop, run and gun action, the behind the back and alley-oop passes, the pull up 3's from long range, all of it started with Williams, but it carried over to Webber, Maxwell, Divac, Barry, Williamson, etc... It wasn't long before the whole team was playing (or at least trying to play) Williams' exciting and care free style of ball, while at the same time racking up triple digits on the score board every night. But even more impressive, was the way it affected his opponents. There were games where Williams would come down and drain 28 foot three-pointers in the face of his defender, and on the very next play his man would come down and try and do the same thing to him. Guys would find themselves doing and trying things that they never before had attempted in games. There were times in the Utah series where one could see even the steady John Stockton getting caught up in it all; you could see him trying to push the ball, run the break more, and just taking more chances, where the Stockton we all know would slow it down and go into a half court set, trying to execute a game plan rather than let things fly by chance. But such is the power of Jason Williams' game. I find it only fitting that he was drafted by the Sacramento Kings, because when Jason Williams is on the basketball court, he is truly a king.