Glen Williams (basketball)

Sonntag, 25. April 1954

Dienstag, 09. Mai 2017

Glen Williams Jr. (April 25, 1954 – May 10, 2017) was an American professional basketball player. Williams was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands and raised in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, where he played baseball as a child before a right arm injury led to him switching to basketball. When he was 15, Williams participated in the 1977 Centrobasket for the Virgin Islands national basketball team. He was the youngest member of the team. His high school basketball coach in the Virgin Islands was from North Carolina and arranged for Williams to transfer to Laurinburg Institute in Laurinburg, North Carolina. He averaged 30 points per game during his first season at Laurinburg and averaged 28 points the following season.