ATLANTA, Dec. 16 Atlanta forward Shelden Williams was a victim of a carjacking before a Saturday game against the Charlotte Bobcats.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Williams' car was stolen at gunpoint outside a barber shop on Cascade Road.
Team spokesman Arthur Triche said Douglas County police caught the suspects as they tried to rob someone else at a shopping mall Saturday evening.
Williams, a second-year forward out of Duke, was not injured.
He missed the Hawks' pre-game walk-through, but played and scored 20 points in Atlanta's 93-84 victory Saturday night.
"It's been a long day, but I'm fine," he said as teammates and coaches approached him in the locker room.
"We are thankful everything turned out the way it did (and) that Shelden was able to walk away from this situation unscathed," Triche said. "(Police) were able to recover his goods and the suspects were apprehended."
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