Penny Hardaway is tired of hearing jokes about his player’s age.
His coach, Penny Hardaway, is sick and tired of that narrative.
Williams is a 26 year-old senior forward who averages 17.3 points and 7.9 rebounds a game for Memphis while shooting 54 percent from the field. He is one of the American Athletic Conference’s best players this year as he’s sixth in scoring, fourth in rebounding, and second in field-goal percentage in the league.In Sunday’s 72-62 loss against top-ranked Houston, ESPN analyst Mark Adams.
During his weekly radio show on Monday, Hardaway shed some light on the history of Williams’ situation.“He got tricked by some guys to leave his high school to go to a virtual school,” Hardaway explained. “Stayed there to play basketball, was promised he was gonna get these different scholarships. He did not get the scholarships and the guys just left him hanging. Found out that none of the accreditation would carry over for him to get into college.
It wasn’t until the 2018-19 season when Williams — as a 22-year-old freshman— saw his first collegiate action at Evansville. “Every time we have a telecast, these commentators are talking about his age in a negative fashion, I think that’s so bad,” Hardaway continued. “I think it is unfair how they always talk about his age during the games. I hate that for DeAndre. It was brought to my attention about Stetson Bennett, the quarterback at Georgia, is 25 years old. I didn’t know he was that old, because they would never say it. So, what’s the difference? To me, it just has to be fair across the board.
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