Everything happens for a reason. That’s the way Kenny Williams views it all. Following a stellar career at Lloyd C. Bird High School in Chesterfield, Va., he was all set to play his college basketball at Virginia Commonwealth University, led by then-head coach Shaka Smart. He would be home, in front of family and friends, giving all his peers the opportunity to come watch him perform on a consistent basis.
VCU is 15 minutes from where he was raised, and the Rams were just a few years removed from an improbable Final Four run that provided a breath of fresh air throughout the city of Richmond.