Herb Williams is a former NBA basketball star.  He played in the NBA for eighteen seasons from 1982 to 1999.  

He attended Ohio State University, and in 1982 was drafted by the Indiana Pacers. He was traded to the Dallas Mavericks after the 1988-1989 season. In 1993, he was signed by the New York Knicks, where he spent six years backing up perennial All-Star Patrick Ewing. The team made the 1994 and 1999 NBA Finals, with Williams serving as a team leader.

After the 1999 Finals, Williams retired at the age of 40. Four years later, he returned to the Knicks as an assistant coach. He worked under head coaches Don Chaney and Lenny Wilkens. When Wilkens resigned in 2005, Williams took over as head coach.

On July 26, 2005, ESPN.com announced that legendary basketball coach Larry Brown was hired as the next head coach of the Knicks, thus ending Williams' head coaching tenure. After that season, Brown was fired by the Knicks and replaced as head coach by Isiah Thomas. Williams worked as an assistant coach under Thomas and Mike D'Antoni, and continues to be in the coaching staff under Mike Woodson. He has coached for the Knicks' NBA Summer League team.

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