{"id":249899,"date":"2025-10-30T01:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249899\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:44:08","slug":"mavericks-brandon-williams-apologizes-for-being-distraction-following-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249899\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks&#8217; Brandon Williams apologizes for being distraction following arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-mavericks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mavericks<\/a> reserve guard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4397040\/brandon-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Williams<\/a> apologized Wednesday for being a distraction after he was arrested Saturday on a charge of marijuana possession.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t really go into further detail,&#8221; Williams, 25, said before the Mavericks&#8217; game against Indiana. &#8220;I just want to apologize for just being a distraction. I want to take full accountability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams was arrested at DFW International Airport on Saturday after less than 2 ounces of marijuana were found in his luggage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going to a funeral for a friend that&#8217;s passing, having that incident, that&#8217;s something that he has to deal with,&#8221; Dallas coach Jason Kidd said. &#8220;We can all be here to support him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who hasn&#8217;t scored and is averaging 9.5 minutes in two games in his fourth NBA season, was available for Wednesday&#8217;s game after being out for personal reasons for Dallas&#8217; two previous games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8212; Mavericks reserve guard Brandon Williams apologized Wednesday for being a distraction after he was arrested Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-249899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}