“I was done,” Williams, who was an …

“I was done,” Williams, who was an assistant with the Oklahoma City Thunder at the time, told The Athletic last week in Phoenix, where he’s five months into this return to the head coaching ranks. “I was just gonna go. I was going to take my kids and I was going to Wyoming. …It was a place I’d always wanted to hunt and fish and raise dogs. It was what I wanted to do. But I knew I would’ve hurt my kids. I would’ve hurt myself. “We tell our (players), ‘Everything you want is on the other side of hard,’ and it’s something that will always be with me, because if I would’ve quit — as hard as this is, and it will be — I know that God has something for me on the other side of this hard thing. And it’s still hard. I still have unbelievable, tough moments, but that’s just life.”