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The St. John’s Edge have made three roster moves in the last couple of weeks, the latest being the signing of a player from the team’s inaugural year

The Edge are bringing back point guard Coron Williams, who was the most efficient three-point shooter for St. John’s in 2017-18, its first season in the National Basketball League of Canada.

The 30-year-old Williams joined the Edge midway though that first campaign and appeared in 18 regular-season and all nine playoff games for the Edge. He averaged 14 points per game, fourth-best on the team, while playing, on average, more than 25 minutes per contest.

He sank nearly half his three-point shots (71 for 146), for a 48.6 average, best on the team.

After leaving St. John’s, Williams played for La Unión de Formosa, a team in Liga Nacional de Básquetbol, the top circuit in Argentina, and for the Dorados de Chihuahua (Chihuahua Gold) in Mexicos premier league.

Born in Italy to a military family, Williams grew up in South Carolina and Virginia. He played collegiately at Robert Morris and Wake Forest before embarking on a professional career that took him to Italy and then to Maine and Greensboro of the NBA-G League before he joined the Edge.

He’s the second Edge alumnus to join the team this month; on Jan. 15, St. John’s added Canadian Olu Ashaolu, who played for the team last season.

To make room for Williams, the club has released Ahmad Thomas, who was only signed Jan. 20. It actually mark the second time in five weeks that Thomas has been released by the Edge; the American forward attended the team’s training camp, but was released in late December, just before the start of the current campaign.

Thomas averaged eight points in two games with the Edge.

St. John’s (5-5) next plays Tuesday and Wednesday when it hosts the defending champion Moncton Magic at Mile One Centre.



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