Nope. He touched on it in a column last year (written around the time when the Rockets were playing well, but not specifically about that, it just happened to come up), and argued that he was completely right and that Jay Williams would have been a superstar if he hadn’t gotten into the crash. Here’s the full quote: “[N]ot a week goes by without some troublemaking reader sending us a "bad” prediction from my archives to make me feel stupid — at least, I think that’s the goal — and one of the leading “somethings” comes from 2003, when I predicted Williams (the No. 2 pick in 2003) would be a better pro than Yao Ming (the No. 1 pick).
Well, you know what? I was right. I was DEAD right.
A lightning-quick, physical 6-footer who would have been unstoppable after they changed the hand-check rules in 2004, Williams had his moments as a rookie, including the 26-14-13 he slapped on J-Kidd and the Nets. He would have been a stud. There’s no doubt in my mind. But Williams stupidly crashed his motorcycle that summer — I say “stupidly” because there’s no acceptable scenario when a professional athlete with a chance to sign a $70 million contract some day should ever own a motorcycle — and that was that. How did Jay’s injury change what transpired with Chicago over the next five years? Imagine Utah only getting one season out of Deron Williams and you have some idea.
(And while we’re here, I wasn’t sold on Yao for the same reason I’m not sold on any guy taller than 7-foot-2 — other than Kareem, there’s no track record of super-tall guys being able to stay healthy and effective while playing between 82-100 games per season at the NBA level. Bill Walton, Rik Smits, Shawn Bradley, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Tom Burleson, Gheorghe Muresan … all of those guys had major problems staying on the court, right? It’s not a game designed for freakishly tall guys who weigh 300-plus pounds. That’s what worried me about Yao, along with the whole “everyone will be going out of their way to dunk on him” thing and all the requisite cultural adjustments. If Williams hadn’t bought that freaking motorcycle, I would have been right on this one. So there.)"

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