Willie Earl Williams is a former National Basketball Association player. Williams lettered two years in basketball at Florida State University after two jears at Miami Dade Community College. In the 1968-69 season, Williams averaged 7.8 points and 9.6 rebounds per game. The following season, Williams averaged 16.9 points and 11.0 rebounds per game. He was drafted with the fourth pick in the third round of the 1970 NBA Draft. After playing sixteen games with the Celtics in the 1970-71 NBA season, Williams was waived by the Celtics and then claimed off waivers by the Cincinnati Royals. In his one NBA season, Williams averaged 0.9 points and 0.9 rebounds per game. [More at Wikipedia]

July 28th, 1946 in Miami (Age 78)