"With a little more than four minutes left in Tuesday's game at New Jersey, point guard Mo Williams left the game with his Cavaliers trailing. The starting point guard had contributed little for Cleveland, hitting just 1-of-12 attempts for two lonely points.
Williams saw his teammates surging, led by his backup and good friend, Ramon Sessions. He watched the Cavaliers take the lead on a Sessions 3-pointer and made a decision.
"Coach, let those guys play," Williams told Byron Scott.
And so Scott did. And he loved the reminder that one of the team's leaders has truly embraced the "All For One, One For All," slogan of the team.
"They were playing really well," Williams explained before Wednesday's rematch at The Q. "I was having an off night and [Sessions] did what backup guards are supposed to do. It was perfect. He came in and played really well, picked up a lot of slack.
"Obviously, if he would have struggled and not played so well, I would have had to go in and just work a little magic down the stretch."
Scott focused more on Williams' unselfishness than on his 8 percent shooting for one game.
"That to me shows that it's all about 'we' and not about 'me,'" Scott said. "That, coming from one of your leaders, one of your veteran guys, was very important."
It helps that Sessions and Williams are very close, stemming from time they played together in Milwaukee. The two often spend down time together in Cleveland, and Sessions has called Williams his best friend.
"Yeah, that does help," Williams admitted. "But at the same time, I would have done it anyway. That's just the way you're supposed to play the game." "