Personal Life
Williams was born in Ritter, South Carolina; he is of Polish, Italian and African-American descent. His father, Elijah Joshua Williams, died of a stroke aged 76 in November 2009. Williams played high school basketball for Christ The King RHS in New York City and college basketball for the St. John's University.
Williams married Kellie Batiste in December 1999; they divorced soon afterward. In 2000, he married Tanya; they are divorcing. Tanya was a cast member of VH1's reality TV show Basketball Wives: LA.
Read more about this topic: Jayson Williams
Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or life:
“Healthy parenting is nothing if not a process of empowerment. As we help to raise our children’s self-esteem, we also increase their personal power. When we encourage them to be confident, self-reliant, self-directed, and responsible individuals, we are giving them power.”
—Louise Hart (20th century)
“The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)