Waiting Game Continues for Williams
Nets taking it slow with star point guard's injured ankle
Like a kid who wakes up on Christmas morning, charges down the stairs to find bushels of presents under the tree, but is then told he’ll have to wait another week or two to open them, Nets point guard Deron Williams is in a frustrating holding pattern.
After general manager Billy King spent the summer loading the Nets’ exorbitantly priced roster with the likes of Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Jason Terry and Andrei Kirilenko, Williams has been instructed that he can neither practice, scrimmage nor suit up to play with his new teammates as the NBA’s preseason enters its final week.
Williams, nursing a sprained right ankle and bone bruise suffered during a pre-training camp workout, has been relegated to watching from the sidelines as All-Star center Brook Lopez, shooting guard Joe Johnson and the rest of his teammates, both old and new, prepare for the upcoming grind of the 82-game regular season.