The 27 year-old US-American with NBA experience, Brandon Williams, will be in try out in the away game against Leverkusen on Friday and the second home game against Braunschweig on Sunday. The final decision on the one-year engagement of the shooting guard with the OPEL SKYLINERS is to be made afterwards.
With Brandon Williams comes a player, who has played a number of games in the best league of the world. In the last years, the 1,98 m tall US-American played one season for the San Antonio Spurs and had short stops with the Atlanta Hawks as well as the New York Knicks. In addition, the athletic and very versatile shooting guard called attention in European teams.
OPEL SKYLINERS head coach Gordon Herbert
"With Williams comes a very talented allrounder to our team, who is without a doubt a very good basketball player. We hope for an improved defensive play and also for fresh impetus for our offence. Brandon Williams has a lot of experience and can be assigned as shooting guard and small forward."
OPEL SKYLINERS general manager Gunnar Wobke
"Brandon Williams has played as so-called borderliner on nearly NBA level for the past three years and has repeatedly received highly rated offers from European teams. He could become our go-to-guy for crucial phases of a game. We are very pleased about the fact that he has decided to come to our team after long negotiations. It is beyond question that he is a very talented basketball player. We will decide after the away game against Leverkusen and the home game against Braunschweig whether his kind of play matches to ours and whether he represents the hoped-for support and completion to our team."
Stops
1997-1998 Golden State Warriors / NBA
1998-1999 AEK Athen / Greece
1999 San Antonio Spurs
1999-2000 Atlanta Hawks / NBA and New York Knicks / NBA
2000-2001 Chalon-Sur-Saone / France
2001 Seattle Supersonics, Summerleague
2001 Talk and Text Pals / Philippines
2001-2002 Southern California Surf / USA, ABA and Detroit Pistons, Summerleague
Stats
In his 37 games for Southern California Surf Williams averaged about 19 points and had about 6 rebounds per game.
