Williams wants to stay with Jazz

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  1. Stockton

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    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">He loves the team, loves the city, loves the coaches.
    He doesn't want to leave.
    He's . . . Carlos Boozer in Cleveland, before the Jazz threw $68 million at his feet?
    Well, yes.
    But he is also Mo Williams, Utah's second-round draft choice in 2003 and a restricted free agent playing this week on the Jazz's Rocky Mountain Revue summer league team.
    "They (the Jazz) gave me a chance when they didn't have to do it," Williams said Monday, before his first Revue practice of the year. "So, I feel like I'm in the right place. I don't want to go anywhere. This is home for me right now."
    Williams, a combo guard and Utah's No. 3 point behind Carlos Arroyo and Raul Lopez as an NBA rookie last season, is not exactly highest on the pecking order of Jazz priorities this summer.
    But the Jazz have made it quite clear they want him to be a part of their future.
    They didn't expose him in last month's NBA Expansion Draft. They made a qualifying offer of $770,046 for next season to retain their right to match any outside offer made to him. And they have a coach who sings his praises.</div>

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    I hope we can keep Mo Williams. I think he could possibly become a "Bobby Jackson" type player for us. Mo is an awesome guy and I'm not just saying that because he is from the south. Everytime I hear him talking he is saying how much he likes Coach Sloan, the team, and Salt Lake City. I remember last year when we got Googs I read somewhere he was showing Googs around the city. Mo is just a classy guy and I want to keep him.
     
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    Mo Williams is one of my favorite players believe it or not, he was one of the steals of his draft class. Mo, I think can exceed expectations and play better than Bobby Jackson has for Kings. Mo is the man, and he has a bright future. I would play Mo before Lopez, because he has more assurance of having a good game than him IMO.
     

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