The Turkish Club Besiktas has decided to retire Deron William's Jersey after just seven regular season games with the club. After the NBA lockout came to an end Williams headed home like most players that traveled to play overseas. He averaged 19.7 points in seven regular season games (not even the leading scorer), and also played in a Euro Challenge tournament where he averaged 33.7 points over 3 games. He did have one outstanding game where he dropped 50. It was believed that Williams was making around 200,000 per month.
I guess something like this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for this club and could possibly continue to sell them more Jerseys. Especially when young kids look in the rafters and see a huge NBA stars jersey. Williams said he would one day consider coming back to Turkey to play, but I doubt he meant anytime soon.
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