Micheal Williams

This article is about the basketball player. For the Tennessee politician, see Micheal R. Williams. For people named "Michael Williams", see Michael Williams (disambiguation).

Micheal Williams

Personal information
Born	(1966-07-23) July 23, 1966 Dallas, Texas
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Listed weight	175 lb (79 kg)
Career information
High school	David W. Carter (Dallas, Texas)
College	Baylor (1984–1988)
NBA draft	1988: 2nd round, 48th overall pick
Selected by the Detroit Pistons
Playing career	1988–1999
Position	Point guard
Number	24, 21, 4, 14
Career history
1988–1989	Detroit Pistons
1989	Phoenix Suns
1989–1990	Charlotte Hornets
1990–1992	Indiana Pacers
1992–1998	Minnesota Timberwolves
1999	Toronto Raptors
Career highlights and awards
NBA champion (1989) NBA All-Defensive Second Team (1992) 2× First-team All-SWC (1987, 1988)
Career statistics
Points	4,533 (11.0 ppg)
Assists	2,385 (5.8 apg)
Steals	717 (1.7 spg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference

Micheal Douglas Williams (born July 23, 1966) is a retired American professional basketball player turned extremely successful American Businessman that played the point guard position in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He holds the NBA record for most consecutive free throws made, with 97. Micheal Williams also founded Dallas based 3i Contracting. 3i Contracting has participated, built and/or developed over $1 billion worth of real estate throughout the state of Texas. Notable projects included AT&T Stadium (formerly Dallas Cowboys Stadium), DFW Airport, Parkland Hospital and DART Rail.

Out of Baylor University, Williams was selected with the 48th overall pick in the 1988 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons with whom he played 49 games in his rookie season, averaging 2.4 points and 1.4 assists per game. The Pistons won the NBA championship in his rookie year.

Williams was traded by Detroit to the Phoenix Suns on draft day of 1989, along with the Pistons' first-round draft pick (27th overall) of the 1989 NBA draft, Kenny Battle, in exchange for the Suns' first-round draft choice (24th overall pick), Anthony Cook. That season was spent split between the Phoenix Suns and the Charlotte Hornets averaging 5.6 points and 2.9 assists per game, before being acquired by the Indiana Pacers in 1990.

He thrived during his two seasons in Indiana, averaging 13.2 points, 6.5 assists and shooting 87.5% from the free-throw line. Prior to the 1992–93 season, he was traded along with Chuck Person to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for Sam Mitchell and Pooh Richardson. He continued his solid play in Minnesota for the following two seasons but, due to various injuries, in his final four years with the Wolves he participated in just 35 games (including missing the entire 1996–97 season). On January 21, 1999 Minnesota traded him, along with Željko Rebrača, to the Toronto Raptors in a three-team deal. By then his career was on the decline, and he only played two games for the Raptors before retiring that year.

At the conclusion of 1992–93, Williams ranked fourth in the league in free-throw accuracy at 90.7 percent after making his final 84 attempts. In the process, he broke Calvin Murphy's 1981 record of 78 successive free throws, continuing his streak into the following season (1993–94), making his first 13 attempts. As of 2020 he still holds the NBA record for consecutive free throws made during the regular season at 97, spanning 19 regular-season games from March 24 to November 9, 1993.

External links

• NBA.com profile
• "Eluding Calvin's curse - Flashback: Micheal Williams' Streak" Basketball Digest, April, 2003 by O'Donnell Chuck @ findarticles.com