Alabama State names Mo Williams new head coach

Mo Williams will get his first head-coaching gig. Sam Wasson/Getty Images

Alabama State names former NBA All-Star Mo Williams new head coach

By Zac Wassink | Last updated May 12, 2020 4:53 PM ET

On Tuesday afternoon, the Alabama State Hornets introduced former NBA guard Mo Williams as the program's next basketball head coach.

It’s a great day to be a Hornet. Go Hornets!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/HhQSo8VpOh
— Mo Williams (@mowilliams) May 12, 2020

Williams played in the NBA from 2003 through the spring of 2016, and the one-time All-Star (2009), who tallied over 10,000 career regular-season points, was part of the Cleveland Cavaliers team that rallied from a 3-1 series deficit versus the Golden State Warriors to win the '16 NBA Finals.

The on the new head coach of the Hornets, @mowilliams! #STATEofMind pic.twitter.com/rItBgwWqEM
— Alabama State MBB (@BamaStateMBB) May 12, 2020

As noted by ESPN, Williams spent the last two college basketball seasons as an assistant at California State University at Northridge. Per Charlie Potter of 247 Sports, the Madators led the Big West in scoring those two years, and the program also set multiple records with Williams on the bench.

Zac Wassink

Zac Wassink is a longtime sports news writer and PFWA member who began his career in 2006 and has had his work featured on Yardbarker, MSN, Yahoo Sports and Bleacher Report. He is also a football and futbol aficionado who is probably yelling about Tottenham Hotspur at the moment and who chanted for Matt Harvey to start the ninth inning of Game 5 of the 2015 World Series at Citi Field. You can find him on X at @ZacWassink

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