Clippers G Williams says agreeing to trade was a 'no-brainer'

The youth and the talent, I think, this team has been rebuilding but they’re at the final stages of the rebuilding,” Williams told Sporting News on Wednesday. “Cleveland is just beginning. They’re in the first quarter, this team is in the fourth. It’s good to come and know we are right there knocking on the door to be good.”

To make the trade happen — which sent Baron Davis and the Clippers’ first-round draft pick to Cleveland for Williams and Jamario Moon — Williams had to agree to waive his right to opt out of his contract and become a free agent next summer, effectively pulling himself off the market and wiping out his ability to sign a new deal at age 28. “It wasn’t a hard decision,” Williams said. “No-brainer, really. I just knew it was a situation that I knew I would love and I had no intentions of leaving. So when it came up as something they wanted, I thought, ‘Of course, sure. Why not?’”