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Speedy Williams wins Last Man Standing |
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Written by Bobbito Garcia
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
 Playground legend James “Speedy†Williams, age 41, the same cat seen on AND1 Mixtape Volume 2, plowed through players bigger, stronger, and faster than him to take the second-ever Last Man Standing 1 on 1 Championship today at Madison Square Garden. Along with a trophy and ring he won a $5000 check and a work-out with an NBA scout. How did a guy who didn’t even play high school achieve all this?
Speedy is an enigma. Many of us in the community have noticed that he keeps on getting better every year, and have joked that by age 45 he will be an NBA lottery pick! In the last three years he has played in every single major championship that NYC summers have to offer, and has taken MVP honors in Nike Pro City and West 4th. He is no stranger to any of this. Since starring at Division 3 Medgar Evars College (Brooklyn), he has taken every tournament, in any borough, by storm. In the ’90s, when the National Pro-Am had their title games @ Rucker Park televised, it was Speedy who led New York past a Chicago squad filled with former D-1 players. He was immortalized in the film “Above The Rim†as he played that dude in the park with the handle who couldn’t be beat...
In the 2003 Nike Battlegrounds 1 on 1 championship, he took second to another playground legend, Junie Sanders. “I lost that game on emotion,†he told me, then offered, “That wasn’t gonna happen again today.†It was heart, and smarts, that carried him to the LMS chip. Big men had to come out on his three, little dudes got bodied underneath. And no one could figure how to box him out. He ran a clinic, and had a strategy round after round. Now consider this–he had already played in a tournament game this morning, and as soon as the award ceremony at the Garden was over, he ran off to a play-off game at Kingdome! The man’s in tip top shape, b!
Returning 2005 LMS champ Corey “Homicide†Williams was shocked in the first round when he lost to a 5′7″ lefty guard that played D-3 that nobody knew. I think his name was Al? I can’t even remember! But I’ll never forget that upset. Homeboy stuck 3s to stay in it, then hit a foul shot to win. It was the first game of the day. I would’ve predicted Homicide and Speedy in the final. Once Hom took an L, the rest of the day was pretty decided.
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