Elliot Williams doesn’t need to see presents open this holiday season — seeing training camp open will be blissful enough.
“When camp opens, its going to be like Christmas,” said the Trail Blazers guard, who, on Tuesday, was working out in the team’s practice facility for the first time since the lockout began. “I’ve been out of game situations for a year and a half.”
Williams had surgery on his dislocated right patella last year and did not log a single minute for the Blazers. The Memphis product — drafted 22nd overall in 2010 — was also denied the opportunity to partake in summer league due to the lockout.
But he kept his game sharp by playing pickup ball in Memphis, Houston and Los Angeles. As for the knee?