Buck Williams
Buck Williams was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States on March 8th, 1960 and is the Basketball Player. At the age of 64, Buck Williams biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Charles Linwood Williams (born March 8, 1960) is an American retired professional basketball player and former Portland Trail Blazers assistant coach.
He was well-known for his rebounding ability and trademark goggles. Williams, a 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) forward born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, is ranked 15th all-time in NBA career rebounds.
Three All-Star Game appearances, a Rookie of the Year award, an All-Rookie team pick, an All-NBA second team pick, and four picks to the first and second NBA All-Defensive squads highlighted his 17-year NBA career.
Buck Williams led the Nets in rebounding for the majority of the 1980s and now in 2017 as the Nets' second all-time leader in points (10,576), minutes played (7,570), and free throws made (2,476).
High school and college career
Williams attended Rocky Mount High School (then called Rocky Mount Senior High) in Rocky Mount, Utah, before going on to play collegiately at the University of Maryland. Williams won the ACC Rookie of the Year Award in 1979, and he had immediate success at Maryland. He led the ACC in rebounding twice (1979 and 1981), while still scoring 15.5 points per game in his sophomore and junior years. In 1980 and 1981, he received All-ACC recognition. National recognition of his performances began when he was selected to the 1980 USA Olympic basketball team alongside such names as future NBA champions Isiah Thomas and Mark Aguirre; however, he did not have to represent the national colours in Moscow due to the United States' boycott. Williams was one of eight players to be named to the ACC's 50th Anniversary men's basketball team in 2002. He was inducted into the University of Maryland's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.
NBA career
Williams decided to leave for the NBA after three years at Maryland. In the 1981 NBA draft, the New Jersey Nets selected him third overall, behind Olympic teammates Aguirre and Thomas. He averaged 15.5 points per game and led the team with 12.3 rebounds per game in his first season with the Nets, assisting New Jersey in 20 more games (a 44–38 loss record) than the previous year while also winning 1982 Rookie of the Year awards. Williams firmly established himself as a premier player with the Nets over the next eight seasons; in six of those seasons, he was rated as one of the best three rebounders in the league, with averages of less than 12 rebounds per game. The Nets made their first playoff appearance since the 1976-NBA merger, when they lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, and the Nets didn't make it to the second round until 2002, when Jason Kidd led them to an unsuccessful NBA Finals date.
The Nets traded Williams to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for Sam Bowie and a draft pick on June 24, 1989. Williams will continue his solid play in Portland and play a key frontcourt role to established guard duo Clyde Drexler and Terry Porter. The Blazers' post-season appearances ended in the first round for the first four seasons dating back to 1990; in comparison, Williams' first three seasons with the Blazers were marked by three Western Conference Finals appearances and two NBA Finals. In 1990, the Blazers lost to the Detroit Pistons in five games, while the Chicago Bulls defeated them in six games. Williams appeared in the starting lineup for the first six seasons with the Blazers. As of September 2018, he is his fifth all-time on the franchise's career list for both field goal percentage (55.0%) and total rebounds (4861).
Williams returned to the Atlantic Division in the twilight of his career, after the 1995–96 season, where he appeared in a much smaller role behind Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley's frontcourt pairing. He spent two years with the Knicks, but he was forced to miss 41 games during the 1997–98 season due to knee injury (the first time he played more than 30 games in a season). Williams resigned on January 27, 1999 after achieving career averages of 12.8 points and ten rebounds per game as well as a field goal average of 54.9 percent. Williams was the seventh NBA player to reach both records over the course of his 17-year NBA career.
Coaching career
Williams was hired by Nate McMillan as an assistant coach for the Portland Trail Blazers in July 2010.
