Boston’s Grant Williams answered fans questions on Twitter

Boston Celtics rookie forward Grant Williams held a Q&A on Twitter Friday – these are the results.

Boston Celtics rookie forward Grant Williams held an epic Q&A session on Twitter Friday, using the downtime created by league-mandated quarantine to keep in touch with fans and pass the time.

While a fair amount of the questions the Charlotte native received were indeed basketball-related, the self-professed nerd had plenty of inquiries that had little to do with the Celtics or Tennessee Volunteers.

The topics raised by fans ran the gamut from anime to zombie apocalypse, and the Tennessee product had some thought-provoking and often humorous answers to most questions poised by fans.

While we don’t know who was operating the team’s Twitter account during the Q&A, Williams didn’t hesitate when it asked him his favorite contest of the 2019-20 season:

Though teammate Enes Kanter had a zippy comeback to Williams’ response.

And of course there were plenty of questions about his days with the Vols…

As well as their multiple NCAA Tournament runs while he was at Tennessee.

Twitter may not be the best medium for conveying subtle things, like how that creepy fan call is fun, for example.

Though it is pretty clear why this is Williams’ favorite meme.

Hopefully the former Vol doesn’t make any bets, if he got word from teammate Kemba Walker how it could backfire.

Williams could have dug deeper on this one perhaps, but it’s a fine list just the same.

We even got a bit of an unintentional lesson about his former collegiate coach’s rotation approach.

The North Carolinian also got some general NCAA questions about his current teammates:

And some more general basketball ones as well.

Some question about the man himself were of course fielded, this one making fans like the author of this article feel, well…old.

And you have to wonder if this could be the burner account of a Lopez twin:

Someone should put Williams on to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

And of course, in the middle of a pandemic, games had to come up.

Comics are another apropos topic, given all the time many of us need to pass in self-isolation.

Though it seems they can be a bit tough on your wallet, at least on a rookie contract.

To Williams, anyhow.

He revealed he watches other sports than basketball, which won’t hurt with the international fans.

Williams also shared his thoughts on the phenomenon known as Weird Celtics Twitter:

But remained mum on his favorite southern fast food chain.

Williams likely chose well for his zombie apocalypse crew, given how hard-nosed and intelligent the team would be.

And things circled back to gaming pretty quick as Williams revealed his Super Smash Brothers preferences.

You knew that sooner or later we’d end up talking about Catan…

…which turned out to be maybe the most popular topic outside of basketball.

Even NBC Sports Boston’s Abby Chin got in on that conversation.

We’re thankful for players going out of their way to do stuff like this here at the Celtics Wire.

These guys are just as concerned with what’s going on as the rest of us, and while they might have perks many of us don’t because of their jobs, it doesn’t make worrying about friends and family and the future who do not have those perks any easier.

And while there’s no actual, live basketball to enjoy, it’s thoughtful gestures like this that help us all take our minds off the less pleasant stuff going on around us.

It helps us focus on the passions and connections that keep us all glued together as Celtics and NBA fans, and reminds us that we’re all in this together.

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