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Jayson Williams

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    February 23, 2010

    Jayson Williams Gets 5 Years in Shooting Death. Warning: He's Eligible for Parole in 18 Months

    Jayson Williams, the former New Jersey Nets basketball star who killed his limo driver with a shotgun in 2002 and then tried to cover it up, was sentenced today to five years in prison. But under a plea deal with New Jersey prosecutors, he'll be eligible for parole in only 18 months. It can't be co ... More >>

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    February 18, 2010

    Jayson Williams Blew 0.19 on Drunk Test After Stuy-Town Crash. Stay Out of His Way!

    Jayson Williams, the pro basketball player who killed his chauffeur while fucking around with a shotgun and still hasn't served any prison time for it, was dead drunk when he crashed his Mercedes SUV into a tree near Stuy-Town last month, prosecutors say. Anybody in the path of his vehicle during ... More >>

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    January 11, 2010

    Jayson Williams Pleads Guilty to 2002 Shooting, Faces 18 Months

    ​Former Nets star Jayson Williams today to pleaded guilty to shooting and killing his limo driver in 2002. The charge in this case is aggravated assault, rather than the reckless manslaughter charge on which he faced retrial after a jury deadlocked on it in 2004. Williams has had a busy wee ... More >>

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    January 8, 2010

    Dangerous Jocks on the Loose? Put Gilbert Arenas, Jayson Williams, and Plaxico Burress in the Same Room and ...

    What a pistol! Gilbert Arenas entertains teammates with some simulated gunplay. A can't-miss reality show that doesn't even need a script: Put gunslingers Gilbert Arenas, Jayson Williams, and Plaxico Burress in a room, don't make them check their guns at the door, and, you know, let's see what hap ... More >>

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    January 5, 2010

    Jayson Williams Said to Have Fractured Neck in Maybe-Drunk Driving Crash

    The Times said former Nets star Jayson Williams was "slightly hurt" in his early-morning alleged-DUI crash, but TMZ says that he fractured his neck. The Post assures readers Williams has not been paralyzed. Williams ran his Mercedes into a tree as he was coming off the FDR Drive at 20th Street a ... More >>

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    December 11, 2009

    Gabby Killer Nets Shooter Jayson Williams Now Accused of Keeping His Mouth Shut

    No balls: Jayson Williams wrote this tell-all in 2001, before he killed his chauffeur. Ex-NBA star Jayson Williams, once one of the most talkative athletes, is now a killer who won't even talk to his lawyers. And he owes them big-time: Williams still hasn't gone to prison for shooting his limousi ... More >>

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    Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

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    May 1, 2009

    Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    Swine is the word! It started out as a mere public health emergency. Some kids got sick in Queens and they closed their school. Then it went viral, so to speak, becoming the new thing everyone's enemies caused. Another Queens school closed. A kid died in Texas. Two Brooklyn schools closed. The Isr ... More >>

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    April 27, 2009

    Former Former Nets Shooter Jayson Williams Rampages, Is Tasered, Goes to Psych Ward

    Apparently Jayson Williams bugged out. The former Nets star, who was found not guilty of manslaughter after blowing away a chauffeur with a shotgun in 2004, became "suicidal and violent" this morning at the Embassy Suites at Battery Park City, and was tasered by police, who then remanded him to th ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 27, 2004

    NY Mirror

    Apparently Jayson Williams bugged out. The former Nets star, who was found not guilty of manslaughter after blowing away a chauffeur with a shotgun in 2004, became "suicidal and violent" this morning at the Embassy Suites at Battery Park City, and was tasered by police, who then remanded him to th ... More >>

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