Williams, however, is “100 percent confident” he will be coaching the Pelicans next season.
“I’m confident that I am going to be the coach of this team because Mickey and I talk all the time,” Williams told Yahoo Sports. “And that has never come up. So I don’t think of anything else. I think of coaching the tea. To me, to have this job is a blessing and privilege. I don’t want to go anywhere. I like what we have here. I like the building it the right way.”
Anderson says the Pelicans players are, to a man, pro-Williams. Davis has previously said that he “loves” Williams and that he “takes a lot of criticism and deals with it.”
“There is not a coach that cares more about the NBA than Monty,” Anderson said. “He puts his heart and soul into this team. He takes a lot of responsibility because he cares so much. A lot of other coaches might put the blame on something else. But he is always a guy who points the finger at himself.
“It’s a great way of being a leader and he’s just the ultimate leader, in my opinion. He’s a humble guy who works really hard and understands that it’s a process. He’s done a really good job of the years that I’ve been here taking a group into a playoff team.”