11.30.11
Deron Williams’ 15 Games With Besiktas Commemorated In Slightly Over The Top Fashion
“Clearly, the bar for basketball greatness isn’t set too high in Turkey,” scoffed USA Today’s Tom Weir upon learning Besiktas had retired Deron Williams’ #8 jersey after just 15 games with the club. Williams, who is rejoining the Newark Nets just in time for the club to make a push for Dwight Howard, averaged 21.8 points per game and 6.5 assists during his blink-and-you-missed-it tenure in Istanbul, numbers far more impressive, than say, those accumulated by Mike Piazza during his 5 games with the Florida Marlins in 1998.
