Know Your Team: Dexter Williams Jr.

Picture Credit: Dan Congdon

Sudbury Five

6'4

Guard

From Jacksonville, Florida

They say big things can come in unexpected forms, true in the case of Sudbury Five and their starters. Dexter Williams Jr. arrived in the 705 somewhat under the radar and set as a rotation player, but quickly made his time on the court count and he kept earning more and more.

He is now living out the promise he showed at an early age. With Moanalua School in Honolulu, Williams won the 2010 and 2011 Oahu Interscholastic Association championship which earned him a spot on the Montana-Western Bulldogs in the NAIA. Shooting 54% from the field, he averaged 15.8 points and 6.8 rebounds per game in his debut season, he won the Frontier Conference Newcomer of the Year and Most Valuable Player, as well as the first of his two conference first-team honours.

In 2018 the Sudbury Five became his first professional team and he began posting 13 points in a 126-123 road win against the Windsor Express - a score he bettered on December 9th with 24 against the same team. Williams posted eight more double-digit performances in his debut regular season, at the end of which Sudbury faced the St. John's Edge in the Central Division semi finals, eliminated in five games.

The following season saw Williams re-join the Five and started to see more minutes, soon earning a starting spot on the team. On his fourth game in the 2019-20 season he had his first double-double, seventeen points and ten boards. The next day he improved with ten rebounds again to go with twenty-one points on a visit to the London Lightning.

Midway through February he had back-to-back 23-point games, the first of which against London he also grabbed ten total rebounds. It was an uneven but impressive season from Williams, whose full potential was curtailed by the early end to play in Canada.

At the end of the long NBLC hiatus, Williams rejoined the team that gave him his start in the professional ranks and he put up a career night, pouring in 26 points on opening day. Dexter Williams Jr has found a new home in Sudbury and is paying back the city that has given him his start in the game with more and more illuminating performances every time he steps on the court.