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    Life Is Not an Accident: A Memoir of Reinvention
    Life Is Not an Accident: A Memoir of Reinvention
    Life Is Not an Accident: A Memoir of Reinvention
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    Life Is Not an Accident: A Memoir of Reinvention

    Written by Jay Williams

    Narrated by Jay Williams

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    Like millions of kids before him, Jay Williams used to pretend he was making the game-winning shot while playing basketball in his Plainfield, New Jersey, backyard. Unlike almost all of those other kids, he kept right on making shots until he became an NCAA champion and two-time national player of the year at Duke and the number-two overall NBA draft pick in 2002.

    But after just one season with the Chicago Bulls, a team starved for a new messiah since Michael Jordan's retirement, Williams destroyed his career when he suffered a horrific motorcycle accident. In an instant, the man with as fast a first step as any point guard in history could no longer do anything for himself, including walk.

    In Life Is Not an Accident Jay Williams shares his story-both heartbreaking and uplifting-of being a young man trying to wrest control of his life from his overinvolved parents, from the pleasures and perils of fame and money, and from the near-fatal mistake that threatened to define him.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 22, 2016
    ISBN9781515974918
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    Jay Williams

    Jay Williams is a former professional basketball player and current ESPN analyst. While at Duke, Jay won the Naismith College Player of the Year Award, was named the AP Player of the Year in 2002, and was a unanimous first-team All-American. Jay was drafted by the Chicago Bulls as the second overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft. He is a motivational speaker, president of the Jay Williams Group, managing partner of the Leverage Agency, and a committed member of a number of charities.

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    • 5/5
      Absolutely loved listening to Jay Williams talk about his life.
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite Duke players of all time. I was stoked when the Chicago Bulls drafted Jason Williams and was heartbroken with how his career turned out. I’m happy to see that he figured out his plan from god and is living a great life now.
    • 4/5
      Quick read and pretty real about the hardship of trying to get back up and failing with just enough details. A tad whiny but not too much for someone who was pretty damn lucky overall.