The Illinois basketball program honors its most-decorated players by lifting their jerseys to the rafters at its home arena in Champaign. The school has a total of 36 jerseys on display at State ...

HIGH SCHOOL: Finished his high school career playing for head coach Thomas Curry at Park Ridge high school in Park Ridge, New Jersey… A two-time All Bergen County lineman, in his senior season ...

The sixth of those players wearing No. 8 did so in the New Jersey Nets and Brooklyn Nets eras, guard alum Deron Williams. After ending his college career at Illinois, Williams was picked up with the ...