Do your time and pray for forgiveness Jayson. You are still a young man and can make something positive out of your life.

“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to God, for he will abundantly pardon”.

The US “justice” system is laughably slow.

@Tim,

You’re right, he could have done his time and been a free man already..

Just tragic. The sentencing comes a day after his 42nd birthday no less. I remember well, I actually brought him a birthday card a couple of times when they played at home on the 22nd.

Free man already or not, 18 months isn’t that bad a sentence considering that someone lost their life.

Well, it took some time, but Jayson finally took accountability for his actions..
Hopefully, this is the end of the sad part of the story..

Hopefully he can get his life together. Sad way for things to end up.

“when former NBA player Dwayne Schintzius joined sports radio station WDAE 620 in Tampa, he told a horrific story about his former teammate that suggests it’s almost a miracle Christofi has been the only person to die at Williams’ hand.

    "I was spending the weekend with Jayson. He had recently suffered a career ending injury, and cashed in his $87 million insurance policy from Lloyds of London. He lived in a 31,000 square foot mansion on 300 acres. It was like a compound. Anyway, one night we are hanging out, and he had this 150 pound rottweiler named Duke. Anyway, Jayson was talking about how tough Duke was, and I bet him $100 that I could drag Duke out the front door by his back legs. The front door was about 15-20 feet away.

    Anyway, so he agreed to the bet, and the game was on. Suddenly, Jayson started shouting attack commands to Duke, trying to get him to maul me. I started baby talking Duke, ‘Come on big fella, how are you Duke?’, etc. So Duke lays down on his side for me to scratch his belly, and so I scratch his belly and drag him out the door. I said to Jayson ‘OK now pay up’. Jayson says ‘OK I’ll be right back’ and goes back inside the house and upstairs.

    After a minute or two, Jayson comes back down with a double barrel shotgun. Without a word, he pumps a round into Duke’s side and then blows his head off with the next shot. He then reloads, points the shotgun at my head from a foot away and says ‘Schintz, get this ******* dog cleaned up and out of here, or you’re next.’ I said ‘Please Jayson, just don’t kill me.’

    His brother and I ended up picking up Duke and taking him to a spot on the property and burying him. Jayson had gone to bed by the time we got back to the house. The next morning I woke up, walked into the kitchen, and there was Jayson wearing a ‘Kiss the Cook’ apron, making pancakes with a big smile on his face, acting like nothing had happened."

Somewhere Donte’ Stallworth is laughing hysterically

Yeh i dunno about that story..scary…I remember his all star year and how much I loved that team…sad to see..I read some of his book and he cleary was a little wild but he also was such a good guy…

Oh well, this year has finally put the final nail into my dream of haveing an all Williams team.

Isaac – “tragic” did someone die?

It was tragic when he shot his limo driver -

The man deserves to go to jail, he killed someone.

he’ll do his 18 months and then he’ll be out.

Easy on the exaggeration

The Schintizus story (which made the NY Post a few years ago) is frightening if it is even half-true.

Having met Jayson, 4 or 5 times the guy came off as one of the nicest athletes I have ever met. He was friendly to me and everyone else around. That being said, he seems to have a split personality to say the least and it’s clear he needs severe attention. His addictions to alcohol and guns were about as bad a combination as you could find and resulted in one man (and possibly one dog) dying as a result.

As a player he was one of my top 5 Nets of all-time, I still wish him welll and wish that he would seek the help he so desperately needs to have a better life the rest of the way (and to remain safe towards society at large).

at SmartNetsFan:

read my comments above. And YES – it is tragic when an athlete that many of us admire that certainly did some good things for this world – like taking in his sisters kids after they BOTH died of AIDS turned out the way he did due to his own illnesses.

The lack of sympathy on these bords in general towards people that we share this earth with has become quite startling.

I doubt that story is true. I dunno about any of you, but if someone shot and killed a dog then pointed the shotgun at my head, I wouldnt go outside to bury the dog and then go back inside and go to bed… If anything I wouldve taken off once I was outside. I cant give credit to Jayson for “taking responsibility” for his actions. He tried to pretend the man killed himself and there’s NO excuse for that. If he wanted to “take responsibility” he shouldve stepped up to the plate and accepted the FULL punishment, not some plea deal in which he can be out in 18 months. The Legal system is disgusting, he kills a man and gets 18 months. Someone without money kills someone(accidental or not) and tries to cover it up they’d get 15-20-30+ years.

*eligible to get out in 18months.

GOOD, another THUG off the streets. But he should also be paying all the court costs for this eight year long bunch of lawyer baloney. I wonder how much taxpayer money this guy has wasted? Sympathy? HE KILLED A GUY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who Knew?

Wealth might bring one misfortune.

What a joke! The guy should go away for atleast 12 to 15 years not 18 months! BS! If any of us did this we would be charged with first degree murder!

@Isaac, I meet Williams once and he was just amazing. He was so friendly and just full of happiness. He was my favorite player on the Nets at the time, got his Jersey, was worried he was going to leave the team before he got his deal, thrilled when he made the All-Star game….. etc…

Talk about split personality. I am a huge Dog lover and the story makes me sick….someone as a Kid I just adored is going to jail for at least 18 months (I consider him very lucky to be in that spot). I wish he turns his life around either ways. LOL, idolizing sports players as a Kid can be dangerous, I feel so taken back that my favorite player for at quite a few years turned out like this…

eye for an eye is how the justice system should work…thats the only way