Former Bull Jay Williams reinvents himself as ESPN analyst

Getty Images Jay Williams averaged 9.5 points and 4.7 assists in 75 games in 2002-03, his only season with the Bulls.It wasn’t a part of Jay Williams’ story that I wanted to dwell on. It seemed too sensitive to touch and too deep to enter. I was interested in how he became a basketball analyst at ESPN and what he thought of the Bulls, who made him the second pick in the 2002 draft.

But why Williams entered broadcasting in the first place was unavoidable, and he dismissed any sensitivity and depth with a matter-of-fact answer.

“I got into a motorcycle accident,” he said. “It’s true.”

Sad, too. On June 19, 2003, Williams crashed while riding his motorcycle on the North Side. He was coming of a…