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Deron Williams

Career Highlights: Deron Williams of the New Jersey Nets is one of the NBA’s most exciting young point guards…A two-time NBA All-Star in 2010 and 2011, Williams made the All-NBA Second Team in both 2008 and 2010…Williams won a gold medal as part of the Team USA at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing…He was a member of the All-Rookie First Team in 2006 and became only the third player in NBA history to have 1,500+ points and 800+ assists while shooting .500 percent from the field in a single season in 2007-08 (along with Magic Johnson and Kevin Johnson)…Williams was drafted third overall in the 2005 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz, where he played the first five and half seasons before being traded to the New Jersey Nets on February 23, 2011...In 451 career games, including 418 starts, he holds averages of 17.2 points, 3.2 rebounds, 9.2 assists and 1.1 steals in 35.7 minutes per game…Williams has shot .463 (2,784-6,017) from the field, .355 (527-1,486) from three-point range and .808 (1,661-2,056) from the free throw line…Williams ranks fourth on Utah’s career assists list (4,003), fifth for three-pointers made (511) and fourth for three-pointers attempted (1,427)…Williams led the Jazz to the Western Conference Finals in the 2007 NBA Playoffs…In the 2010 NBA Playoffs, Williams became the first player in NBA history to record at least 20 points and 10 or more assists in five straight games in a playoff series against Denver…Williams also won the Skills Challenge title at the 2008 NBA All-Star Game…Williams played collegiate ball at the University of Illinois for three seasons (2002-05) where he left as the second all-time leader in assists in school history with 594…Named First Team All-Big Team as both a sophomore and junior, he averaged 11.0 points, 3.3 rebounds and 5.9 assists in 101 career games for the Illini…As a junior, Williams led the Illini to a 37-2 record, a Big Ten title, and the 2005 NCAA National Championship game…He was named to the NCAA Final Four All-Tournament Team and was named Most Outstanding Player of the Chicago Regional…Williams earned consensus Second Team All-American honors and was a Wooden Award finalist…As a junior, Williams averaged 12.5 points, 3.6 rebounds and 6.8 assists, where he led the Big Ten and ranked 11th in the nation in assists...Williams became the first player in Big Ten history to lead the conference in assists in each of his first three seasons (conference games only)…His 264 assists set a single-season school record…In the 2005 NCAA Championship Game loss to North Carolina, he tallied 17 points and seven assists.

Updated: June, 2011

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