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Justin Quinn

‘I’ve been a chatterbox my whole life,’ says Boston’s Grant Williams of the personality quirk that drives his elite play

It is not exactly a secret that Grant Williams talks a lot among his peers in the NBA. His teammates on the Boston Celtics know he’s just as communicative anchoring the team’s defense in the frontcourt as he is over a friendly set of six-deck Uno games on the team plane, and his loquacious personality is no recent development.

In the draft process that would ultimately land him with his current team, the Tennessee product shared his mind about prospective franchises and their faults as they were interviewing him in ways that did not always sit well with potential employers, according to Heavy’s Steve Bulpett.

“We all talked about it,” said an unnamed general manager, “but that kid wasn’t shy at all.”

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