Lou Williams is an American professional Basketball player who plays in the National Basketball Association (NBA). As of 2022, Lou Williams currently plays for the Atlanta Hawks as their point guard. Lou Williams has played for other teams like the Philadelphia 76ers (2005-2012), Fort Worth Flyers (2006), Atlanta Hawks (2012-2014), Toronto Raptors (2014-2015), and Los Angeles Lakers (2015-2017), and Houston Rockets (2017). As a Point guard, Lou Williams reportedly earns $8,000,000 as his yearly salary.
American professional Basketball player Lou Williams is a father to two adorable baby girls.
As of 2022, Lou Williams has an estimated net worth of over $35 million. He reportedly signed a 3-year contract worth $24,000,000 with Los Angeles Clippers in 2019. Further, the NBA player has an average salary of $8 million annually. His salary for 2019 is reported to be $8 million.
Year | Salary |
2014 | $5,450,000 |
2015 | $7,000,000 |
2016 | $2,058,824 |
2017 | $4,941,176 |
2018 | $7,000,000 |
2019 | $8,000,000 |
2020 | $8,000,000 |
The NBA Sixth Man of the Year earned $8 million as his salary in 2020.
His previous contract with the Clippers was three years worth $21 million, which he signed in 2015. His annual salary at the time was $5 million.
Lou Williams so far has made earnings of $65,198,368 from his entire NBA career.
Besides Lou Williams' financial earnings, his assets include a Big budget home and expensive fast cars. Further, the NBA Player earns a good amount of money from various sponsorships.
Louis Tyrone Williams is currently single after recently splitting with his ex-girlfriend Rece Mitchell. He was involved romantically with two women, Ashley Henderson and Rece Mitchell, at the same time back in 2014. He was recently dating Rece Mitchell, but the couple separated some days back in November 2018.
As per some sources, Rece dumped the NBA star and got close to her ex-boyfriend Drake. Lou was dating two girls simultaneously, and Rece was completely aware of it.
The couple has two adorable daughters, Zada Williams and Zoey Williams.
Besides being a famous NBA Point Guard, Lou Williams is pretty famous on social media. He has massive followers of 640K on his Instagram and 191K on his official Twitter account.
Lou Williams is not only a world-class athlete but also a very attractive individual. The Famous NBA star is 6 ft 1 in / 1.85 m in height and weighs around 175 lbs / 79 kg.
Louis Tyrone Williams was born on October 27, 1986, to father Willie Louis Williams and Janice Faulkner. He is American and belongs to the African-American ethnic group as per his nationality. Further, his star sign is Scorpio. He grew up with his siblings, Taurus Stinnett, FraShaundra Williams, and Shaun Haynes.
Lou Williams attended South Gwinnett High School in Snellville, Georgia, where he played for his high school basketball team. After graduating high school, he enrolled at a college where he continued basketball.
The Philadelphia 76ers signed Lou Williams with the 45th overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft. At the end of the 2007-2008 season, Williams signed a 5-year contract worth $25 million to stay at Philadelphia. On July 12, 2012, Atlanta Hawks signed Williams, and due to the injury, he couldn't play for the rest of the season, so he made his debut on November 20, 2013, and scored the highest point of his career with an average of 10.4 points, 3.5 assists, and 2.1 rebounds per game.
William was again traded to Toronto Raptors on June 30, 2014, where his performance was stunning, and he was named a 2015 NBA Sixth Man of the Year, who became the first player to win the award from the Toronto Raptors. Later he signed a 3-year contract worth $21 million with the Los Angeles Lakers on July 9, 2015. He was also the firstLakers player to score at least 38 points in successive games since Kobe Bryant in 2013.
On February 23, 2017, Williams was assigned by Houston Rockets in the 2017 first-round draft pick. However, the Los Angeles Clippers acquired Williams, Patrick Beverley, Sam Dekker, Montrezl Harrell, Darrun Hilliard, DeAndre Liggins, Kyle Wiltjer, and a 2018 first-round pick from the Houston Rockets in exchange for Chris Paul on June 28, 2017. He wore a jersey, no. 23.
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