Two of Roy Williams friends, former players reflect on his early days as high school coach

Posted Apr 7, 2021
Porky Spencer joked Friday that his homeroom teacher at Charles D. Owen High School in Black Mountain, some guy by the name of Roy Williams, did pretty well for himself. “I will say Roy is doing a lot better today than he did on Thursday,” Spencer said from Chapel Hill, where he was visiting with Williams the day after Williams’’ retirement announcement. (Winston-Salem Journal)

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