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Dumb-fast crossovers. No-look dimes nobody else could even see. Jason Williams made chaos look like a plan during his rookie year, and basketball fans across the NBA ate it up.
He found passing lanes that seemed to open and close within a heartbeat, slipping the ball through gaps so small it felt like he could see in directions the rest of us can't. Those weren't simple chest passes, either. Behind the back. Over the head. Bullets fired with no glance at the target, landing right in a teammate's shooting pocket. His bounce passing? Put it this way: other players weren't doing it, and nobody had done it before him.
SLAM 35 arrived late in that rookie season, while the Rookie of the Year race between Williams, Vince Carter and Paul Pierce was still wide open. A game winner here, a kiss off the glass there, a pass threaded through lockdown defense. The trio kept answering each other all year.
That issue carried our first triple cover. All three rookies got their own front, and the same story ran inside: three SLAM writers debating the race until the editor-in-chief called it. The digital archive has the full read. Only one of the three actually won.
Williams wasn't the one who took the trophy home. His legend grew anyway, partly through highlights still being watched today by the millions and partly through the elbow pass, a single moment that took on a name of its own. It happened once in the league. Once was enough to make it the high mark for passing showmanship.
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