Before Thursday’s game, Reeve was asked about Williams’ influence as a true character among teammates.
“Courtney has a very natural disposition that is happy — it’s real, it’s authentic,” Reeve said. “It’s not just sometimes when you see her, because she comes the same every day, and when she doesn’t you’re worried … well, that [she] didn’t get enough sleep.
“She gives this team a lot of confidence. She’s always hyping them, and she believes in them deeply. They know that in her words and her actions.”
This is straight from the heart — and maybe, more so, the gut — from Courtney Williams and it is fantastic. Linking it here might not meet the newspaper’s standards for avoiding profanity, but you can find it and take in the journey for a self-described “Black masculine woman from Folkston, Georgia” to WNBA excellence, with all her blemishes, the obstacles and now the triumphs.
And near the end of this gigantic essay, Courtney turns straight from small-town Georgia poignant: