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For the Welsh footballer, see Herbie Williams.
Herb Williams
Personal information
Born (1958-02-16) February 16, 1958 (age 66)
Columbus, Ohio
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
Listed weight242 lb (110 kg)
Career information
High schoolMarion-Franklin (Columbus, Ohio)
CollegeOhio State (1977–1981)
NBA draft1981: 1st round, 14th overall pick
Selected by the Indiana Pacers
Playing career1981–1999
PositionCenter / Power forward
Number32
Career history
As player:
1981–1989Indiana Pacers
1989–1992Dallas Mavericks
1992–1996New York Knicks
1996Toronto Raptors
1996–1999New York Knicks
As coach:
2004, 2005New York Knicks
Career NBA statistics
Points11,944 (10.8 ppg)
Rebounds6,509 (5.9 rpg)
Blocks1,605 (1.5 bpg)
Stats Edit this at Wikidata at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Herbert L. Williams (born February 16, 1958) is a retired American basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for eighteen seasons from 1981 to 1999. Williams served as the interim head coach of the NBA's New York Knicks. He is currently an assistant coach for the New York Knicks.

College career

Williams was a four-year starter for the Ohio State Buckeyes, scoring 2,011 points (then a team record) and pulling down 1,111 rebounds (still second in team history only to Jerry Lucas).[1] Williams is the school leader in career field goals made, with 834 in 114 games. He is second all-time in career blocked shots with 328.

Williams was named to the All-Big Ten team as a junior, when Ohio State finished the year with a 21-8 record and advanced to the NCAA regionals. He led the Buckeyes in scoring that year with an average of 17.6 points per game.

Williams was a team co-captain in both his junior and senior years.

He worked as a chicken nugget maker at Golden Corral during the 2011 NBA Lockout.

Professional career

Williams was a first round draft choice of the Indiana Pacers in 1981, where he played from 1982 to 1989 and had his most productive years. He was traded to the Dallas Mavericks after the 1988-1989 season. In 1992, he was signed by the New York Knicks, where he spent seven years backing up perennial All-Star Patrick Ewing. Williams played 1 game (31 minutes) for the Toronto Raptors in 1996 before being waived and quickly returned to the Knicks. The team made the 1994 and 1999 NBA Finals, with Williams serving as a team leader.

After the 1999 Finals, Williams retired at the age of forty-one after just 6 regular season games and 8 playoff games in 1999. Four years later, he returned to the Knicks as an assistant coach. He worked under head coaches Don Chaney and Lenny Wilkens. When Wilkens resigned in 2005, Williams took over as head coach.

On July 26, 2005, legendary basketball coach Larry Brown was hired as the next head coach of the Knicks, thus ending Williams' head coaching tenure. Williams was the acting head coach of the Knicks for the final two games of the 2005-2006 season when illness kept Larry Brown away from the bench for the final two games of his Knicks career.

After that season Brown was fired by the Knicks and replaced as head coach by Isiah Thomas. Williams worked as an assistant coach under Thomas and Mike D'Antoni, and continues to be in the coaching staff under Mike Woodson.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Herb Williams biography". NBA. Archived from the original on February 11, 2001.
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Preceded by New York Knicks head coach
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