The long class of ’95 has spent NBA with Los Angeles and Washington, but in Europe he has already “tasted” high-level championships and continental cups. Coach Molin: “A team player with functional characteristics for our basketball ideas”
Dolomiti Energia Trentino closes the 2021-22 roster with the arrival of Johnathan Williams, an American center of 206 centimeters for 103 kilograms.
Born on May 22, 1995 in Memphis, Tennessee, Williams is a product of Gonzaga University, where he moved for his years as a junior and senior after studying for two years in Missouri: finished his university experience with a season of 13.4 points and 8, 5 rebounds on average in 37 games played, Johnathan signs with the Los Angeles Lakers and in the 2018-19 season he plays 23 games in the NBA (6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per night) and another 35 in the G-League with the affiliate of the yellow-violet in which he travels at 15.7 points and 8.7 rebounds.
In 2019 comes his first European experience with the Maccabi Rishon LeZion shirt: between the Israeli championship and EuroCup Williams plays 18 games scoring over 12 points and collecting almost 9 rebounds on average, performances that earn him another NBA call, this time to Washington Wizards with whom he takes the field in 14 other challenges of the top world league.
In 2020 he marries to Galatasaray, and also in Turkey he shines by closing with 10.3 points and 7.3 rebounds on average between the championship and the FIBA Basketball Champions League; in February he moved to Germany, to the Niners Chemnitz, with which he ends the 2020-21 season. In his palmares also a gold at the American Under 16 Championships and at the Under 17 World Championships with the United States.
LELE MOLIN (Coach DOLOMITI ENERGIA TRENTINO): “Williams is a long man that we have followed all summer, an athletic center and an excellent rebounder: he is a team player, and has all the characteristics that we think fit well with the idea of the team we wanted and that we have built. . Also in light of the previous operations and the players we had already added to the roster, Johnathan fits perfectly with the rest of the group. He came out of an important college like Gonzaga with excellent credentials, in these days he was playing for his opportunities to find space in the NBA, we are happy that he has chosen to come to Trento to further relaunch his ambitions ».
