Education
DeMatha Catholic High School.
DeMatha Catholic High School.
In 1965 he was a senior and a starter on the DeMatha team that beat New York City"s Power Memorial Academy 46-43 on January 30. Sports writers at the time and later called it the greatest high school basketball game ever. Williams went on to play at Louisiana Salle University for four years.
As a senior in 1968-1969, he averaged 18.4 points per game and led Louisiana Salle to a 23-1 record and a Number.
2 national ranking. Unfortunately, the Explorers were ineligible for the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Invitational tournaments because of academic and recruiting violations in prior years. In the 1969 National Basketball Association Draft, Williams was selected by the San Diego Rockets.
He played with the Rockets until 1971 and then played three seasons with the Virginia Squires of the American Basketball Association alongside Julius Erving. In 1982, Williams was inducted into the Philadelphia Big 5 Hall of Fame.
He died of corectal cancer in 2002.