When Lou Williams was in high school here, his mother, Janice Wofford, made him wash the dishes and do his chores, the same as always. “It was celebrity night, all the time,” said Jim Rhodes, South Gwinnett’s public address announcer for the last 44 years. Lou’s whole high school came out to welcome him back on the day the gymnasium’s court is being dedicated in his name. Clippers guard Lou Williams is one of only two players to have won the NBA’s sixth-man award three times. (Jonathan Bachman / Getty Images)By his freshman year at South Gwinnett, so many letters from college coaches had arrived that Wofford stopped counting.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 23, 2020 22:07 UTC