SANTA CLARA, Calif.- Former Santa Clara men's basketball standout and current Oklahoma City guard Jalen Williams helped lead his team to their first NBA Finals Championship Sunday with a 103-91 victory over the Indiana Pacers in a winner-take-all game seven. Williams tallied 20 points, four rebounds and four assists in the Thunder's series clinching victory, helping OKC earn their first-ever NBA Finals Trophy.
 
Williams capped off a tremendous season for the Thunder after earning his first NBA All Star team selection averaging 21.6 ppg, 5.3 rpg, and 5.1 apg in the regular season. He was named to the All-NBA Third Team and was an NBA All-Defensive Second Team selection, becoming the first Bronco alum to receive All-NBA honors since Steve Nash.
 
In the postseason, Williams was even more spectacular, averaging top five numbers in minutes (34.6), points (21.4), rebounds (5.5), assists (4.8), and steals (1.4) for the Thunder. The Oklahoma City rising star also shot 44.9 percent from the field, 30.4 percent from three, and 78.9 percent from the free throw line. Williams scored 15 or more points in all seven games of the NBA Finals including a dominant 40 point performance in the Thunder's 120-109 decisive game five victory. In the Finals alone, Williams averaged 23.6 ppg, 5.0 rpg, and 3.7 apg.
 

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Williams was a three year starter for the Broncos in 2019-2022, twice earning All-WCC honors, and was named Second Team NABC All-District in 2021-22, becoming the first Bronco to earn NABC All-District honors since Jared Brownridge in 2016-17. As a junior, Williams led the Broncos with 594 points, which ranks eighth in program history for a single season, and finished second in the WCC with 18.0 ppg. He was the only player in the nation to average 18.0 ppg, 4.1 rebounds and 4.1 assists while shooting 56 percent from 2-point range and 41 percent from beyond the arc. He was a finalist for the Lou Henson Award, given to the nation's top mid-major player.
 
The No. 12 pick in the 2022 NBA Draft, Williams becomes the first Bronco to win the NBA Finals as a player since Kurt Rambis in 1988 - the last of four championship titles he won with the Los Angeles Lakers.