Deron Williams RUMORS & NEWS

New York Post "Sixteen seconds into the fourth quarter, the hush that settled on Barclays Center was palpable. Jimmy Butler had just knocked down a 3-point shot, and the Chicago Bulls were within a point, and you could almost see the bad tidings forming in the thought bubbles above every one of the 17,732 heads..." April 30

CSN Chicago "As time winded down on the United Center scoreboard Saturday afternoon, it appeared Deron Williams would headline Game 4 as the star who reasserted himself as the aggressor in the boxing match of a series between the Nets and Bulls. Through the game’s first 45 minutes, Williams had dazzled the..." April 28

New York Daily News "For Deron Williams, recovering from a debacle will come down to adjustments. It will also hinge on his ability to manage a game that passed him by Monday. Williams is still calling the plays for the Nets in the postseason, coach P.J. Carlesimo said, similar to the way the point guard directed..." April 24

New York Post "Those who have been in New York long enough know the deal. Reggie knew it. Jeter lives it. So does Eli and Messier and anyone who played from the 1969-70 and 1972-73 Knicks. It’s what you do in the playoffs that shapes your legacy in New York. That’s how an athlete becomes legendary in this..." April 19

New York Daily News "Perhaps it was revenge for the spanking the Celtics gave the Nets on Christmas, or the Rajon Rondo-initiated fight here back in November. More likely, though, was that the Nets’ 101-93 victory over Boston Wednesday night was the result of the Nets being simply better than the Celtics. There was..." April 11

New York Post "Deron Williams knows what Gerald Wallace is going through. It wasn’t so long ago Williams was struggling with his shot and searching for confidence, igniting questions about the Nets’ franchise player and his place among the NBA’s premier point guards. But he powered past it, reminding Brooklyn..." April 09

New York Post "As Deron Williams has flourished in the six weeks since the All-Star break in the wake of getting platelet rich plasma treatment and a third round of cortisone shots in both of his ailing ankles, the one thing that has been missing from his game has been throwing down his first dunk of the..." April 04

New York Post "I’d heard plenty about the Mark Cuban's pre-game media sessions before Mavericks home games, when he’d get on a Stairmaster in his team’s weight room and answer questions while working out. But it’s an entirely different thing to actually experience it, as Cuban climbs to the top of the thing and..." March 21

New York Post "Deron Williams returns home Wednesday night, both to the place where his basketball career began as a high school star and where he had the chance to return and spend his prime as a pro when the Mavericks battled with the Nets to sign him as an unrestricted free agent last summer. But Williams..." March 20

New York Post "After the Nets collapsed Sunday night in Brooklyn against the Hawks, Deron Williams talked about how the eight-game, 17-day Circus Trip he and his teammates began last night would be a huge test for them both mentally and physically. Williams then went out and made sure the trip started off..." March 19

New York Post "In case mediocre statistics were not a giveaway, Deron Williams’ body language provided a clue. Leadership was out of the question. It’s sort of tough to lead when you can’t walk up a flight of stairs or take the mascot off the dribble. Welcome to Williams’ world, before the NBA All-Star..." March 17

New York Post "Deron Williams has said several times this season that he just wants to get back to having fun again on the basketball court. It’s hard to believe he’s ever had more fun with the Nets than he is right now. Williams continued his dramatic second-half resurgence last night in Brooklyn, putting..." March 14

New York Post "Throughout their first season in Brooklyn, one question has hung like an anvil over the heads of the Nets: what happened to Deron Williams? It turns out the answer may have simply been his aching ankles. Since returning from a two-game hiatus before the All-Star break, Williams has looked..." March 10

New York Post "When the Nets convinced Deron Williams to re-sign during free agency last summer, they had nights like this in mind, nights when he would lift the crowd inside Barclays Center to its feet with his play, and lift his team to a win. Williams did that, and then some, against the Wizards, finishing..." March 09

Nets Daily "The Washington Wizards entered tonight's game against the Nets with a 5-22 record on the road. Yes, five road wins and we're a week into March. What could possibly go wrong. Cut to, dot-dot-dot... Nothing. Nothing could go wrong. Not with the way Deron Williams was shooting the ball, on this..." March 09

New York Post "Having lost four of five, the Nets have a bunch of problems, but Deron Williams isn’t one of them. The star guard, who has battled injuries all season, detoxified his body during the All-Star break last month and has been red hot since. He has lost weight, has more energy and spring, and says..." March 06

Nets Daily "Since the All-Star Break, Deron Williams says he is feeling a lot better. He's undergone plasma replacement procedure that helped Kobe Bryant's knees. He's taken cortisone shots and, he told beat writers Tuesday, he went on a three day, juice detoxification diet over the All-Star break. What's..." March 06

New York Post "The skidding Nets have lost four of their last five and fallen to sixth in the Eastern Conference. Deron Williams criticized their energy and effort on defense, and interim coach P.J. Carlesimo admitted fixing the defense and turnovers are their most important tasks — important enough he’s willing..." March 05

Dallas Morning News "The Mavericks on Friday night will get their first look at Deron Williams since the point guard elected to stay with the Nets in free agency last summer rather than bolt to the Mavericks. While Williams has been good this season, and the Nets are 34-24, his averages of 17.3 points and 7.7..." March 01

New York Post "Last summer, when Deron Williams was the NBA’s biggest free agent, P.J. Carlesimo, then a Nets assistant coach, had some fears that the star point guard was going to leave the Nets for the Mavericks. Carlesimo, now the interim head coach, believed Dallas was a legitimate and logical suitor for..." March 01

Nets Daily "As Deron Williams told Rod Boone, in the absence of Joe Johnson, players have stepped up. "I think that's a positive you can take from having a guy out, is that other guys need to step in," Williams said. "You've seen MarShon [Brooks] get good minutes and some other guys get minutes in his..." February 28

New York Post "Deron Williams declared he’s done talking about injuries. If he keeps playing like he did last night against the Hornets, his game will do more than enough talking for him. Williams turned in his best performance since the All-Star break, finishing with 33 points— including the Nets’ final..." February 27

New York Post "When you play like that, with the biggest heart in Brooklyn, you do not deserve to lose a heartbreaker on a night you justifiably cried foul because the officials somehow did not. Deron Williams spent this night pretending all was right with his inflamed ankles and right wrist, spent the night..." February 25

New York Post "When Brook Lopez left for his first All-Star Game, the Nets expected him to come back with a confidence boost. Instead, he’s looked ordinary — or worse — more often than not since returning. That was the case again last night, as Lopez finished with nine points on 3-for-10 shooting as the Nets..." February 25

New York Post "Deron Williams wasn’t hoping for a miracle cure through a third set of cortisone injections in his aching ankles. But the Nets point guard hoped to get through one game with relief and maybe return to the way he always has shot the ball. Well, he got to the third quarter at least before he..." February 23

SportingNews.com "Deron Williams continues to struggle with sore ankles, getting treatment instead of taking the best course of action to a cure. Missing time with the Brooklyn Nets, Williams says, is out of the question. Friday's 106-96 loss to the Houston Rockets saw Williams limping in the third quarter, the..." February 23

New York Post "P.J. Carlesimo admitted Thursday what has been obvious for weeks: Deron Williams isn’t going to be at full strength this season. “The reality of it is he’s not going to be 100 percent this year, and I think that’s the thing that a lot of people are having difficulty grasping,” the Nets’ interim..." February 22

ESPN.com "Brooklyn Nets point guard Deron Williams says he will play Tuesday against the Milwaukee Bucks. Williams missed the past two games with inflammation in both ankles. The three-time All-Star received platelet-rich plasma injections in both of his ankles last week. Williams spent this past..." February 19

New York Post "Deron Williams admits his ankle injuries have hindered him and hurt him to the point he can’t even dunk. And after undergoing Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) treatment and sitting out last week, the Nets’ star guard acknowledges he needs more time to fully recover — time he won’t take, insisting he’ll..." February 19

ESPN.com "USA Basketball president Jerry Colangelo says Deron Williams, out the past two games for the Brooklyn Nets with ankle injuries, was overweight last summer before the point guard hurt his ankle in London. "Deron Williams, for the Olympics, was not in the best shape," Colangelo told the New York..." February 16

New York Post "When Nets general manager Billy King spoke earlier this week about Deron Williams’ struggles this season, he referenced the injuries and struggles Carmelo Anthony endured last year with the Knicks. Though King didn’t mean it in this context, there is another parallel to the Knicks from last..." February 14

Nets Daily "Chad Ford speculates (reports?) that the Nets might be interested in re-uniting the Jazz pick and roll combination of Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer in Brooklyn. In discussing who could be moved, Ford talks of a "potential" three-way deal that would send Kris Humphries to the Bobcats, Ben..." February 13

New York Post "When Nets general manager Billy King traded for Deron Williams two years ago, he proudly proclaimed he had the best point guard in the NBA. The Nets happily ponied up nearly $100 million dollars to sign Williams to a five-year max contract, ensuring he would be the face of the franchise as it..." February 12

Nets Daily "The Brooklyn Nets announced today that Deron Williams will miss tonight's game against the Indiana Pacers and Wednesday's home game against the Denver Nuggets. He is expected to return after the All-Star break. From the official release: Brooklyn Nets guard Deron Williams will miss the next..." February 11

New York Post "Nearly every game this season has seen Deron Williams come up limping or grabbing something in pain. The Nets’ 93-90 win over the Pistons Wednesday night was no exception. Williams banged his right leg early in the first quarter, causing him to limp for a few minutes. Later, he had athletic..." February 07

New York Post "In the past, the Nets always would feel like they were playing on the road when teams like the Lakers, Celtics, Knicks and Heat came to town. But that’s already begun to change in their first year in Brooklyn, something the Lakers will experience tonight when they make their first trip to Barclays..." February 05

ESPN.com "The Brooklyn Nets averted potential disaster late in the second quarter of their 93-89 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Friday night at Barclays Center. With about a minute remaining in the second, point guard Deron Williams appeared to suffer a significant injury to his right ankle. Williams..." February 02

New York Post "Less than 24 hours after the Nets saw their miserable month of December end with a 31-point blowout loss to the Spurs, Deron Williams sat in a tiny gym in San Antonio on New Year's Day and said he hadn't been playing like the elite point guard he and the Nets expected him to be. "I think I can..." January 15

New York Post "Nets interim coach P.J. Carlesimo hasn't altered much from former coach Avery Johnson's system, the one star point guard Deron Williams ripped right before Johnson was fired. But the Nets have clearly responded to Carlesimo — none more than Williams himself. "He's been great for us so far, and..." January 11

Nets Daily "When P.J. Carlesimo took over the Nets two weeks ago, he said that Deron Williams was the least of his worries. He believed that Williams problems were being "overanalyzed" and that he didn't think his point guard had fallen off as much as pundits believed. He may have been right. Over the past..." January 10

Nets Daily "Nets officials talk about it a lot, both publicly and privately. So does Deron Williams. Is his game suffering from fatigue? Did a year-long schedule of games in Turkey, the NBA and Olympics, with no significant break, cause his falloff in production? To put it more simply, Is he burnt out? "He..." January 01

New York Post "Deron Williams never took a break this summer to try and be as ready as he could be for the first season in Brooklyn. But all of the extra work Williams put in may be coming back to haunt him now, after going through yet another rough outing in last night's 104-73 blowout loss to the..." January 01

New York Post "Deron Williams was at the Nets practice facility Thursday riding a stationary bike when general manager Billy King delivered the news Avery Johnson was no longer the team's head coach. "It caught me off-guard," Williams said before scoring 19 points in the Nets' 97-81 victory over the Bobcats..." December 29

New York Post "As if the Nets didn't have enough problems, they played last night without star point guard Deron Williams. Coach Avery Johnson announced before the game that Williams, who has been dealing with various ailments all season long, would miss at least what eventually became a 108-93 loss to the..." December 27

Newark Star-Ledger "Good morning, Deron Williams. Thanks for coming, have a seat. We figured it was time to have this chin-wag — even after a decent but disappointing night at the Garden — because you're a sensitive soul who needs to be approached carefully even when we venture into something intended as a..." December 20

SLC Dunk "Start the sad violins. START THEM! Do you hear that sound? It is the sound of Deron Williams looking into his soul and reminiscing about his time spent in Utah. No. Really. He is. I HAVE PROOF. "I was injured the first year (and needed season-ending right wrist surgery)," Williams said..." December 18

Nets Daily "This is one big reason Deron Williams stayed in New York: Forbes Magazine, read by corporate CEO's and marketing directors everywhere, lists D-Will first and foremost in its 2012 "30 under 30 - Sports." The list mixes athletes and executives, "entrepreneurs and corporate fast trackers." Among the..." December 17

Nets Daily "Deron Williams has enough problems. He's shooting career lows both overall (under 40) and from three (under 30). His scoring average is the worst it's been since his second year and he has the burden of being the player who's owed the most money of anyone in the NBA ($100 million). Not to mention..." December 16