Greenville's Shammond Williams, once basketball star, dreamed of working on Wall Street

Posted Feb 2, 2019
Although people know Shammond Williams for his college and professional basketball careers, his passion leading up to basketball was music. He was a skilled drummer and French horn player whose career goals were simple. “The only thing I wanted to do was show people I was a good basketball player, but my ultimate dream was to work on Wall Street,” Williams said. (Anderson Independent Mail)

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