(N.Y. Post)
Jailed basketball star Jayson Williams has transformed himself into a churchgoing mentor to other prisoners at Rikers Island — earning him the nickname “The Moses of Rikers.” Christopher Hughes, who was incarcerated at Rikers for 100 days with the former New Jersey Net, tells us the baller is beloved by all behind bars with him, from crackheads to gangbangers. “People treat him like a star,” said Hughes, who was released from Rikers last week after serving time for reckless assault. “Every single person shakes his hand. He is like Moses, the Moses of Rikers.” Williams is completing a one-year sentence for DWI, after serving an 18-month term in a New Jersey prison for aggravated assault. He accidentally shot and killed a limo driver in 2002 at his New Jersey mansion.
To be completely honest with you, I was 90% sure Jayson Williams was already dead. I thought he got shived in prison, but I guess that's not the case. Apparently, he's the second coming who has followers in not only the crackhead community, but in gangbanger nation as well - and we all know how difficult of a task that could be. Whenever someone brings this guy up, I can't help but think about the episode of MTV Cribs where he was riding around his dope ass mansion in Jersey on a golf cart while shooting shit with his shotgun...Talk about foreshadowing...fuck. But listen, everyone deserves a second chance. And sometimes you fuck up that 2nd chance by getting hammered and falling asleep while driving. But at least he's found the lord and he's working towards that 3rd chance at redemption, one cracked out, gang banging, rapist murderer at a time.
P.S. This got me thinking, I wonder what kind of basketball team I could assemble consisting of only players who have spent time in the slammer. So here's what I got....
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