ESPN analyst, Jay Williams had garnered heat for expressing his opinions regarding the Iowa Hawkeyes star, Caitlin Clark. The women’s collegiate basketball player has recently broken the NCAA all-time scoring record which was earlier set by Kelsey Plum, Las Vegas Aces icon.
Williams attracted ire from the community when he stepped aside, considering Clark the greatest. Regarding this, he had shared, "I am unwilling… to say that she is great yet. I think she’s the most prolific scorer the game has ever seen. I hold great, or the levels of immortality or the pantheon, to when you win championships."
Thoughts on GREATNESS. Please stop the dumb race baiting commentary around Caitlin & Angel. Also.. a note to all you fake *** hoopers. Keyboard warriors don’t win 1v1s. Remember that.. #AgeOldProverbFromTheBookOfHoops pic.twitter.com/zWBmcj2YfE
— Jay Williams (@RealJayWilliams) February 22, 2024
To share his opinions further on the baiting that increased against Williams, he took to Platform X, formerly Twitter, and expressed himself. He stated via awful announcing, "Please stop with all this race baiting sh*t. Please. Ain’t nobody out here trying to do that. It’s just hoopers. Now, the comment of great, [Angel Reese and Clark] are both great, OK? We were talking about levels of greatness and immortality and in the pantheon of greatness, there are levels to greatness with [championships]. That’s how I think about it.
He further continued, "You think about differently? Fine. But the only thing I’m gonna say is to all you keyboard courageous people that wanna call me a bum or try to make fun of my career, none of y’all could hold me. None of y’all. Ninety percent of y’all didn’t even pick up a basketball. You can’t even dribble the rock. You can’t even shoot. So, let’s stop being tough guys on the keyboard. Just because you disagree with somebody doesn’t mean you need to call their game a bum when you know that’s not the case."
The well-known analyst played for Duke Blue Devils from 1999 to 2002 and had an average of 19.3 points and 6 assists per game across three seasons. He was considered an icon during his college career, however unfortunately his career ended shortly in the NBA as he suffered a motorcycle crash.
In 2001, Williams led the Duke to win the NCAA national championship and was also named the NABC Player of the Year and in 2002 as well. He was also the National College Player of the Year in 2002 and two-time First-Team All-ACC. In 2000, he was also named the ACC tournament MVP. His No. 22 is retired by the Duke organization as well.
