Robert Williams No-Shows

Slid down draft boards, then misses first official event. Cause for concern?

ESPN says it was a miscommunication given different time zones.

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Robert Williams, the Boston Celtics' first-round selection in the 2018 draft, admitted he overslept the team's originally scheduled introductory conference call on Friday morning, although the team believes it was simply a miscommunication compounded by different time zones.

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A few tweets from a Celtics beat reporter:

Tobias Funke said:

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Seems pretty inappropriate for SDS to speculate, based on nothing, that he was hungover

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It's not like SDS is the Washington Post, baseless speculation is kind of their thing.

bobinator said:

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Tobias Funke said:

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Seems pretty inappropriate for SDS to speculate, based on nothing, that he was hungover

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It's not like SDS is the Washington Post, baseless speculation is kind of their thing.

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The Washington Post, and a lot of its peers, do a whole lot of baseless speculating (aka "anonymous sources") these days! Hopefully RW will not miss any more such appointments and therefore not give SDS and the rest of the press reasons to speculate.

Congratulations to Robert on getting placed with an excellent organization! The hard part is now understanding that your college days are over and you are now a professional who is being paid handsomely. Expectations are now exponentially higher and amount of grace given for mistakes is much lower. Until you retire and maybe even after you will be under intense scrutiny. Welcome to the NBA!