Aaron Pervis Williams

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Aaron Williams
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No. 1–MBK SPU Nitra
Position Shooting guard / point guard
League Slovak Basketball League
Personal information
Born (1991-11-09) November 9, 1991 (age 32)
Chicago, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight205 lb (93 kg)
Career information
High school Vocational (Chicago, Illinois)
College
NBA draft 2015: undrafted
Playing career2015–present
Career history
2016–2017St. Louis Riversharks
2017 St. John's Edge
2018–2019 Goga Basket
2019 Sagesse SC
2019 Goga Basket
2019–20204th Quarter Helsingborg
2020 Djurgårdens IF Basket
2021 Cherkaski Mavpy
2022 Fryshuset Basket
2022–2023 Sangalhos DC
2023 Vllaznia
2023 Chaophraya Thunder
2023 HK Lingnan
2023–2024 MBK SPU Nitra
Career highlights and awards

Aaron Pervis Williams (born November 9, 1991) is an American professional basketball player that currently plays for MBK SPU Nitra of the Slovak Basketball League. [1] Standing at 1.98 m (6'6), he plays at the guard and forward positions. [2] After one year at Dodge City College and three years at Chicago State University he has played professional basketball in the United States, Albania, Canada, Lebanon, Sweden, Ukraine, Thailand, Hong Kong, Slovakia and Portugal. [3] [4]

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High school career

Williams played high school basketball at Chicago Vocational Career Academy at Chicago, Illinois. He was a 2010 McDonalds All-American nominee and also earned all-Chicago Public League Red-South honors as a senior. [5]

College career

After graduating from high school, Williams attended Dodge City Community College, where he stayed until 2011. As a freshman, he averaged 10 points, 7.2 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game which featured a 22 points and 10 rebound performance against Garden City Community College. [5] For the next 3 seasons he would attend Chicago State University. As a sophomore, he would have games that featured a 21 points and five rebounds performance against North Carolina A&T, a 15 points and five rebound game against DePaul, and a 19 points and 11 rebounds game vs. Houston Baptist. [5] During his junior year, he would have a 11-point game against Notre Dame. [5] His team would go on to win the great west conference tournament that year. [6] During his senior season, he went on to earn All-WAC Academic Honors. [7]

Professional career

After going undrafted in the 2015 NBA draft, Williams joined the St. Louis Riversharks of the Midwest Professional Basketball Association in 2016. [8] The following season, he was selected as the #1 overall draft pick of the National Basketball League of Canada in 2017 by the St. John's Edge. [9]

The next year, Williams joined Goga Basket of the Albanian Basketball League in 2018. [10] While there, he helped lead his team to the Albanian Cup Finals. That same season, he also played for Sagesse SC of the Lebanese Basketball League. [11] [12]

Williams again signed with Goga Basket in 2019 but soon signed with 4th Quarter Helsingborg in Sweden. While there he went on to average 27.4 points, 10.4 rebounds, 2.4 assists, and 3.0 steals per game. He finished the 2019–2020 season with Djurgårdens of the Swedish Basketball League. [13] On March 10, 2020, Williams set his career high in points in a Sweden – Basketligan game where he scored 22 points against Norrköping Dolphins. [2] On February 27, 2021, Williams signed with Cherkaski Mavpy of the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague. [14]

Personal life

In 2014, Aaron and his mother Tonya gained national attention for earning their bachelor's degree from Chicago State University alongside each other. [15] [16] [17]

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  2. 1 2 Proballers. "Aaron Williams, Basketball Player". Proballers. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
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  4. ↑ "Basketball News, Scores, Stats, Analysis, Standings". EuroBasket. Retrieved February 27, 2021.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Aaron Williams – 2014–15 – Men's Basketball". Chicago State University Athletics. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
  6. ↑ "2012–13 Chicago State Cougars men's basketball team", Wikipedia, November 22, 2020, retrieved February 19, 2021
  7. ↑ "Nine CSU Student-Athletes Named Winter Academic All-WAC". Chicago State University Athletics. April 10, 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  8. ↑ "St. Louis RiverSharks – 2016 Regular Season – Roster – #24 – Aaron Williams – G". www.thempba.com. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  9. ↑ Network, SaltWire. "St. John's Edge look forward with draft picks | The Telegram". www.thetelegram.com. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
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  14. ↑ "Aaron Williams (ex Djurgarden) agreed terms with Cherkasy". eurobasket. Retrieved February 27, 2021.
  15. ↑ vcortez (May 6, 2014). "Classmates now, but always mom and son". NCAA.org – The Official Site of the NCAA. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  16. ↑ "Chicago State University to Grant Degrees to Mom, Son at Same Ceremony". DNAinfo Chicago. Archived from the original on August 11, 2020. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
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