Avtodor Saratov has signed 29-years old American forward Reggie WILLIAMS (198 cm, 93 kg) until the end of the season. The player has 6 seasons and 200 games of the National Basketball Association at his dosposal having scored 7.9 points, 2.4 rebounds, 1.5 assists per game.
Williams is a lefthandler with high basketball IQ. He is strong shooter who is able to play isolation and score a lot of points for his team. He is capable to play at any position from playmayker to power forward. His basketball manner Reggie reminds the Houston Rockets star James Harden.
Williams played for such famous NBA clubs like Golden State Warriors (2009-10, 2010-11), Charlotte Hornets (2011-12, 2012-13), Oklakhoma City Thunder (2013-14) and San Antonio Spurs (2014-2015). Reggie started this season for San Antonio Spurs, but was unable to stay in the final roster of the team.
Avtodor Saratov newcomer also played for Sioux Falls Skyforce, Talsa 66, Oklakhoma City Blue (all from NBA D-League), Dijon (France), Caja Laboral Vitoria (Spain), San Miguel Birmen (Phillipines).
Reggie Williams was born and currently living in Prince George (Virginia state). His native university was VMI where he was playing in the NCAA from 2004 to 2008.
After completion his studying in the university, Williams participated authomatically in the NBA Draft, but he has not been choosen. Then the American guard started to play in France to choose Dijon. His average statistics in the French League were 12.7 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.5 assists for 29.0 minutes played in 29 games.
After that, Reggie signed with Sioux Falls Skyforce of the NBA D-League, where he scored 26.4 points per game. His brilliant performance allowed the NBA clubs to take him into consideration. Next season Williams started to play for Golden State Warriors.
Highlights For Warriors 1
Highlights For Warriors 2
During the locked-out period in NBA, the American forward went to Spain for Caja Laboral Vitoria.
On summer 2011 Williams signed two-years contract with Charlotte Bobcats for 5 million USD. After the termination of the agreement, he was back to D-League.
On 26th December 2014 Williams officially became the player of Oklakhoma City Blue. He played 13 games there, where his average statistics were 16.8 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 1.1 steals for 32 minutes showing the three-point shooting percentage of 49.2.
San Antonio Spurs was the last club of Reggie Williams, where he played 20 games in the 2014/15 NBA regular season and 6 pre-season games.
Highlights in the NBA D-League - season 2013/14
The arrival of the newcomer in Saratov is going to happen next week. It's expected to see him in action already in the game versus BC Nizhny Novgorod to be held on 24th January 2016.