Sleep would come fitfully for Jayson Williams, and while he was waiting to drop off, that’s when the demons and everything that accompanied them would come. How else to fight them off, even for just a few hours, but with a drink, and then another and then another?
Life was a lonely place for Williams, a few years removed from serving an 18-month prison sentence for his role in the accidental killing of limo driver Costas Christofi and subsequent cover-up and light years from his nine-year career in the NBA, the last seven seasons with the New Jersey Nets before a collision with a teammate shattered his tibia and knocked his life off-kilter.