Gus Williams (basketball)

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For the similarly named basketball player born in 1960, see Guy Williams (basketball).

Gus Williams
Washington Bullets
1987Atlanta Hawks
Career highlights and awards
Career statistics
Points
14,093 (17.1 ppg)
Assists4,597 (5.6 apg)
Steals1,638 (2.0 spg)
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Gus Williams (born October 10, 1953) is an American former professional

Washington Bullets and Atlanta Hawks
.

High school and college

Williams played high school basketball at Mount Vernon, where he was selected player of the year in 1971 by the New York State Sportswriters Association. He played college basketball at the University of Southern California.

Professional career

Williams was selected in the second round of the 1975 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors and in the first round of the 1975 ABA draft by the Spirits of St. Louis. Williams signed with the Warriors for the 1975–76 season and was named to the NBA All-Rookie Team in his first season.[1] Williams played two seasons with the Warriors before he was allowed to leave as a free agent before the 1977–78 season, when he signed with the Seattle SuperSonics.

While with Seattle, Williams was twice selected to the

All-NBA First Team (1982) and All-NBA Second Team (1980) selection. Williams, whose style of play earned him the nickname "the Wizard",[2] led the Sonics to the 1979 league title while averaging a team-high 28.6 points per game in the Finals
.

While in the prime of his career, Williams sat out the entire

Washington Bullets. During the 1984–85 season Williams played alongside the similarly named Guy Williams
.

He finished his career with a 17.1 point-per-game scoring average in a career spanning 12 years from 1975 to 1987. In 2004 Williams' #1 jersey was retired by the Sonics. In 2016 Williams' jersey was retired by USC.

Williams' younger brother Ray (1954–2013) also played in the NBA.[4]

Popular culture references

Williams is one of five 1970s Seattle SuperSonics players whose names are featured on characters in "The Exterminator," the third episode of Season 1 of iZombie. The other four are Freddie Brown, Wally Walker, Marvin Webster and Don Watts.[5]

NBA career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high
 †  Won an NBA championship

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1975–76 Golden State 77 – 22.4 .428 – .742 2.1 3.1 1.8 0.3 11.7
1976–77 Golden State 82 – 23.5 .464 – .747 2.8 3.6 1.5 0.2 9.3
1977–78 Seattle 79 – 32.6 .451 – .817 3.2 3.7 2.3 0.5 18.1
1978–79† Seattle 76 – 29.8 .495 – .775 3.2 4.0 2.1 0.4 19.2
1979–80 Seattle 82 – 36.2 .482 .194 .788 3.4 4.8 2.4 0.5 22.1
1981–82 Seattle 80 80 36.0 .486 .225 .734 3.1 6.9 2.2 0.5 23.4
1982–83 Seattle 80 80 34.5 .477 .047 .751 2.6 8.0 2.3 0.3 20.0
1983–84 Seattle 80 80 35.2 .458 .160 .750 2.6 8.4 2.4 0.3 18.7
1984–85 Washington 79 78 37.5 .430 .290 .725 2.5 7.7 2.3 0.4 20.0
1985–86 Washington 77 67 29.7 .428 .259 .734 2.2 5.9 1.2 0.2 13.5
1986–87 Atlanta 33 0 14.6 .363 .278 .675 1.2 4.2 0.5 0.2 4.5
Career 825 385 31.1 .461 .238 .756 2.7 5.6 2.0 0.4 17.1
All-Star 2 1 20.5 .429 .000 1.000 1.5 6.5 1.0 0.0 14.0

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1976
Golden State
 11 – 16.2 .353 – .667 1.3 2.4 1.0 0.0 6.7
1977
Golden State
 10 – 18.4 .500 – .857 1.5 2.5 0.8 0.1 8.8
1978
Seattle
 22 – 31.9 .477 – .726 3.9 4.0 2.0 0.5 18.3
1979
†
Seattle
 17 – 36.4 .476 – .709 4.1 3.7 2.0 0.6 26.7
1980
Seattle
 15 – 37.6 .514 .200 .721 4.0 5.6 2.3 0.5 23.7
1982
Seattle
 8 – 39.4 .441 .333 .786 3.3 8.1 1.6 0.6 26.3
1983
Seattle
 2 – 40.5 .553 .000 .867 3.5 4.0 2.5 0.0 32.5
1984
Seattle
 5 – 43.0 .510 .333 .714 2.4 11.4 1.6 0.6 23.4
1985
Washington
 4 4 39.8 .423 .300 .750 2.0 5.0 1.3 0.3 18.0
1986
Washington
 5 5 39.8 .481 .100 .778 2.0 6.6 2.2 0.0 18.2
Career 99 9 32.5 .476 .231 .737 3.1 4.7 1.8 0.4 19.5

See also

  • List of National Basketball Association career steals leaders
  • List of National Basketball Association career playoff steals leaders
  • List of National Basketball Association players with most steals in a game
  • List of National Basketball Association players with most assists in a game

Notes

  1. ^ "BasketballReference.com Gus Williams page". Archived from the original on February 24, 2009. Retrieved December 26, 2008.
  2. ^ "Gus Williams". NBA.com. Archived from the original on July 27, 2018. Retrieved June 13, 2006.
  3. Newspapers.com
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  4. ^ BASN's Hometown Hero Archived December 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, by Peter Vecsey; published on March 13, 2007
  5. ^ Nussbaum, Danielle. "iZombie recap: 'The Exterminator,'" Entertainment Weekly, Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Retrieved March 15, 2023.

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