Jayson Williams in the news again

[Andrew]

And once again, it's not for a particularly good reason.

NY police shock ex-NBA star Williams with stun gun

Former NBA star Jayson Williams was zapped with a stun gun by police in his swank hotel suite Monday after the reportedly suicidal athlete resisted attempts by officers to take him to a hospital.

Police were called to the hotel in lower Manhattan’s Battery Park City neighborhood around 4 a.m. when a female friend reported that the former New Jersey Nets player, who was convicted in 2004 of trying to cover up a shooting at his home and whose wife recently filed for divorce, was acting suicidal.

When officers arrived, the 6-foot-10, 325-pound Williams appeared drunk and agitated, police said. There were empty bottles of prescription drugs strewn around his disheveled hotel suite and several suicide notes.

Officers with the Emergency Services Unit, an elite team trained to deal with emotionally disturbed people, responded and stunned Williams with a Taser after he resisted attempts to be hospitalized.

What can you say? It's been a rough ten years following the injury that ultimately ended his career. Hopefully he'll get the help he needs.

[Stress Fracture]

May I just ask who is that player? I've never heard of him before. At first I thought it was White Chocolate.

[hova-]

Great rebounder in his best days for the Nets. His career was ended by a leg(knee) injury I think. And now he almost ended his life. Sad

[Stress Fracture]

Great rebounder in his best days for the Nets. His career was ended by a leg(knee) injury I think. And now he almost ended his life. Sad

Oh. Thanks! Maybe he wanted to die because he want to escape his problems.

[Jeffx]

Jayson Williams has had his demons long before he joined the NBA. Read about his family background and you'll understand why. I'm glad he's in the hospital, because the dude needs help fast.

[Andrew]

Oh. Thanks! Maybe he wanted to die because he want to escape his problems.

I think that pretty much goes without saying. It's very unfortunate that some people reach a point where they feel that is the solution.

[shadowgrin]

Officers with the Emergency Services Unit, an elite team trained to deal with emotionally disturbed people, responded and stunned Williams with a Taser after he resisted attempts to be hospitalized.

You know his mental state is really bad when an elite team can do nothing but resort to tasing him.

[Oakrhum]

He killed his driver before.

[Andrew]

Presumably not in cold blood, though what he did next certainly didn't help a situation that had already gone pretty bad to say the least.

[Alejandrov011]

Wow, 325 pounds


He need's help

[Andrew]

And again.

Former NBA star Jayson Williams was arrested early Monday after authorities say he punched someone in the face outside a Raleigh nightclub, the latest legal tribulation for the All-Star who has spent years in the courtroom since an injury ended his basketball career.

Some type of dispute led Williams, 41, to hit the other person shortly before 2 a.m., Raleigh police said. Williams was charged with one count of simple assault and released on $1,000 bond.

[Moz]

Is he the same guy who got a murder case back in the day? What happened to that? I remember back then when I'm doing a CF of him I can't find any good pictures for the CF and then found a high resolution picture of him from those court room snapshots and ended up using those instead

[Andrew]

That's him.

[NovU]

That's fucked up really. I hope he gets better.

Officers with the Emergency Services Unit, an elite team trained to deal with emotionally disturbed people, responded and stunned Williams with a Taser after he resisted attempts to be hospitalized.

You know his mental state is really bad when an elite team can do nothing but resort to tasing him.

sad...

[Andrew]

Professional help probably wouldn't go astray.

[Andrew]

Prosecutors: Sentence ex-NBA star Jayson Williams

Prosecutors on Wednesday asked a judge to sentence Jayson Williams for covering up a fatal shooting at his mansion in 2002 and cited the former NBA star’s recent erratic behavior, including an assault arrest in North Carolina.

Williams, 41, was acquitted of aggravated manslaughter in 2004 but convicted on four counts of trying to cover up the shooting of a hired driver at his mansion. The jury couldn’t reach a verdict on a reckless manslaughter count, and State Superior Court Judge Edward M. Coleman has delayed sentencing pending Williams’ retrial on that charge.

The four cover-up counts, which include witness and evidence tampering, carry a combined maximum sentence of 13 years in prison, but Williams is not expected to receive a term longer than five years, the maximum sentence for the most serious charge.

It's not getting much better for him, though admittedly this was still on the cards before the recent incidents.

[NovU]

I have a feeling he will escape from being prisoned by acting crazy or almost. Him wanting to suicide should play a role in his trial. Obviously, he doesn't seem sane at the moment.

[Andrew]

You couldn't fairly say that has any bearing on what happened seven years ago though, so it shouldn't work to his or the prosecutor's advantage. That's not to say it won't, but I don't think it should.

[shadowgrin]

His defense lawyers will probably use the insanity card to prevent him from spending time in a "real" prison and instead be in a prsion for nutcases or mental institution. His lawyers citing that he's not emotionally or mentally fit to spend time in prison.

[NovU]

First degree murder... I guess he won't find any easy way out anyways. Too bad anytime you see former NBA players going through such fucked up after post NBA life.

[Dan's Brain]

All of this, all of it can be pinned on Stephon Marbury.

[Andrew]

It's never Stephon Marbury's fault.

In all seriousness, that accident and the resulting injury Williams suffered turned out to be a bad break in every sense of the word.