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Roy Williams prepares for double knee replacement surgery

Williams will have procedure later this month

Recovery time uncertain but he plans to be healed in time for busy July recruiting season

Williams labored through last season while both of his knees bothered him

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla.

Roy Williams tried to play golf the weekend before last, he said, and that experience provided him all the incentive he needed to finally go ahead and schedule the double-knee replacement surgery that for a while has seemed inevitable for him.

“I was so bad and I hurt so much during the course of it,” Williams said of that particular round of golf.