Mark Williams Nominated For Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award

Another day, another nomination: yesterday Paolo Banchero was nominated for the Karl Malone award.

Today?

It’s Mark Williams, who has now been put on the watchlist for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award.

The award, of course, is named for the former UCLA and Bucks/Lakers great who is on anyone’s shortlist for a quick Top Five all-time NBA players and, arguably, the greatest player to ever take the court in college basketball.

That’s a shortlist. Bill Russell is on it, maybe Pete Maravich and Christian Laettner. Jerry West? Oscar Robertson?

It’s a smaller list.

The only other ACC player on the list is UNC’s Armando Bacot although former Tar Heel Walker Kessler, now at Auburn, made it.

Here’s the entire list.

• Walker Kessler — Auburn
• Nick Muszyinski — Belmont
• Mark Williams — Duke
• Colin Castleton — Florida
• Chet Holmgren — Gonzaga
• Kofi Cockburn — Illinois
• David McCormack — Kansas
• Oscar Tshiebwe — Kentucky
• Ahsan Asadullah — Lipscomb
• Qudus Wahab — Maryland
• Jalen Duren — Memphis
• Hunter Dickinson — Michigan
• Armando Bacot — North Carolina
• Moussa Cisse — Oklahoma State
• Nate Watson — Providence
• Zach Edey — Purdue
• Osun Osunniyi — St. Bonaventure
• Myles Johnson — UCLA
• Fardaws Aimaq — Utah Valley
• Liam Robbins — Vanderbilt