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Nets have first-class plan for success
lifetime ban from the NBA for substance abuse, an auto accident that killed star guard Drazen Petrovic, and the saga of Jayson Williams . Williams broke his leg in April of 1999, only a few months after signing a six-year, $86 million contract. A few months Read more »
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Against Storm, Hoyas rule
WASHINGTON — The big man, John Thompson Jr., and the bigger man, Dikembe Mutombo, strolled down a hallway in the bowels of the Verizon Center, looking more like father and son than coach and son, but that’s the way it is at Georgetown. Thompson Jr., and from New York Post Read more »
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Jayson Williams prosecutor, kicked off case, to get $1.3 million
It was unclear how much money Errickson had sought in the suit. Errickson, 38 when she was fired, was so shocked when she was told to leave the prosecutor’s office that she was hospitalized, Smith, her attorney, previously told The Star-Ledger. Smith has from NJ.com Read more »
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Ex-prosecutor in Jayson Williams' fatal shooting case sues over 'political' firing
View full sizeExpress-Times File PhotosA former prosecutor is suing the state because of his firing after he criticized the dropping of an investigation into Undersherff Michael Russo and Hunterdon County Sheriff Deborah Trout. A former prosecutor who ha from NJ.com Read more »
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Fake It Till You Make It : Jayson Williams’ Popularity Rebound
“People treat him like a star,” said Hughes, who was released from Rikers last week after serving time for reckless assault. “Every single person shakes his hand. He is like Moses, the Moses of Rikers.” “Jayson would sign people’s Bibles,” Hughes told us from Can't Stop The Bleeding Read more »
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Jayson’s the ‘Moses of Rikers’
Jailed basketball star Jayson Williams has transformed himself into a churchgoing mentor to other prisoners at Rikers Island — earning him the nickname “The Moses of Rikers.” Christopher Hughes, who was incarcerated at Rikers for 100 days with the former from New York Post Read more »
