Q. When the trade happened, did you see it coming or did you expect it? F*ck no. No, I was in Dallas getting ready to play. I had like a suite. I had all my family, friends coming to the game. So I’m in there getting taped in the in the training room in the hotel in Dallas and TV’s right here. I’m getting taped and it pops up. ‘Breaking news: Deron Williams traded to the Nets’, as I’m getting taped. Somebody was like, ‘D-Will, is that true?’ And I looked and I was like, ‘Sh*t, I don’t know.’ Called my agent and he’s like, ‘I ain’t heard that. Let me let me call Kevin O’Connor.’ He was our GM. So he called Kevin O’Connor, called me back like five minutes later and he’s like, ‘Yeah, they traded you.’ So I guess what happened was that was the year Melo was trying to get out of Denver. He had been talking to the Knicks. No, he’d been trying to get to the Nets. It was the Nets or the Knicks. I think they were all doing like trying to make a deal for Melo. And basically when the deal happened with Melo to New York, cuz it was right before the trade deadline, Kevin O’ Conor literally just told the Nets, ‘Whatever y’all offered for Melo, and they did the swap.’ So it was that same package they had for Melo, they did for me and just made the swap. And so I found out that day. Didn’t play in the game in Dallas, obviously. My teammates were on the bus, went out and told everybody bye and then packed up and headed to Brooklyn.
