And if the suits talked to him long enough, they would have learned something else: If Brandon Roy were a jerk instead of a terrific kid, we may never have even heard of Terrence Williams.
True story, circa the summer of '99, when one Seattle kid was 15 and the other one was 12:
"Sixth grade," Williams recalled Friday. "He was playing across the street, and I asked him if I could play. And he taught me how to use the glass and stuff. One thing I'm mad at is, he didn't teach me how to shoot the ball. He just taught me the ins and outs of the game. But I thank him for that."
And the rest of us can thank that high-school freshman for not telling a sixth-grader to buzz off a decade ago.
Does that mean once he stretches his stroke, he'll play like Roy someday?
"Totally different styles of games," Williams said. "He's an All-Star and I'm trying to make it to the NBA. But one day, who knows? I could be the president."
