Ex-Cleveland Cavaliers center John "Hot Rod" Williams died on Friday at the age of fifty three, his agent Mark Bartelstein told ESPN's Brian Windhorst. In AN interview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Terry Pluto, Bartelstein aforesaid Williams got adenocarcinoma concerning six months past, and so it unfold.
Williams vie thirteen seasons within the NBA when being written No. forty five overall in 1985. He stayed with the Cavaliers for the primary 9 of them, and teamed with Larry gay man and Brad Daugherty within the frontcourt, sometimes because the sixth man beneath head coach Lenny Wilkens. within the 1989-90 season, he averaged a career-high sixteen.8 points to travel together with his eight.1 rebounds and a pair of.0 blocks. He holds career averages of eleven points, 6.8 rebounds and one.6 blocks.
Cleveland fans bear in mind Williams as a part of the cluster that challenged archangel Jordan's Chicago Bulls however could not quite get past them within the playoffs. In 1995, Williams was listed to the Phoenix Suns. He spent 3 seasons there, a year with the metropolis Mavericks and so retired. when basketball, he started a construction business in Sorrento, La., the little city close to capital of Louisiana wherever he was born.
Williams is fourth on the Cavs' incomparable list in games vie, third in rebounds, second in blocks and seventh in points.