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Journeys of Faith with Paula Faris

Jay Williams: "Why Not Me?"

Journeys of Faith with Paula Faris

ABC News

Daily News, Politics, Entertainment News, News

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Jay Williams made his name as a college basketball star and was ready for a long career in the NBA -- until a motorcycle accident took it all away from him. In this episode, the ESPN commentator shares how faith helped him redefine what success means to him. --- If you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741-741. You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860 (U.S.) or 877-330-6366 (Canada) and The Trevor Project at 866-488-7386. --- Paula Faris is an Emmy Award-winning anchor and senior national correspondent at ABC News. Previously, she was the co-anchor of "Good Morning America" on the weekends and ABC's "The View." Support this podcast with a review --------> http://bit.ly/2DChGho "Journeys of Faith with Paula Faris" is produced by ABC Radio. More information: http://www.abcnewspodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So March Madness ended last week and I don't know if you know this about me but I am a huge sports fan and this week's guest is Jay Williams. He's an analyst at ESPN. He won a college basketball national championship while he played at Duke and then he was drafted into the

0:16.7

NBA second overall in the 2002 draft by the Chicago Bulls.

0:21.2

His rookie year he gets into a motorcycle accident and it all but ends his career.

0:25.8

It was so bad that one physician told Jay it looked like an IED exploded on his leg.

0:31.4

Jay says part of him died that day, but he says that's the most important thing. on his

0:35.0

reawakening began.

0:37.0

Here's this week's episode, Jay Williams,

0:40.0

and the moment he stopped asking God, why me?

0:43.4

And started asking, why not me?

0:48.3

Thanks so much for joining.

0:49.2

Thank you for having me.

0:50.9

You and I go back and of course we love to give each other some grief around March

0:54.2

Madness time with Duke and Michigan. But this is all about journeys of faith and how our

1:01.6

faith has guided us through triumph and tragedy which you've seen your

1:05.4

share of. So let's just go back to the beginning and take me all the

1:10.8

way back. Let's rewind a little bit.

1:13.0

But before we rewind, I just want to ask you,

1:15.6

what is it that you believe, Jay?

1:19.4

I originally, I'm Catholic.

1:21.4

I went to an all-boys Catholic high school. I went to an all boys Catholic high school I went through a private school K

1:26.8

through eighth and my father was Catholic my father's from Fort Lauderdale so I

1:31.2

grew up going to a Catholic church. I think faith

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