PHOENIX This story was going to be different.

If Monty Williams had decided to disappear, to head for the hills after the fatal car accident on that February night in Oklahoma City had taken his wife, Ingrid, and nearly wrecked their whole family for good, this conversation would have happened somewhere in Wyoming. No more coaching. No more basketball. No more spotlight.

The love of his life, the 44-year-old mother of their five children, the woman who had been there for him from the Notre Dame days to his pro playing career and beyond, was gone. So maybe he would succumb to the sadness, just pack up their kids and run toward the sanctity and solitude of the great wide open. And who could blame him?

I was done, Williams, who was an assistant with the Oklahoma City Thunder at the time, toldThe Athletic last week in Phoenix, where hes five months into this return to the head coaching ranks. I was just gonna go. I was going to take my kids...

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'I still have unbelievable, tough moments:' Monty Williams on love, death, coaching and the chance to do it... - The Athletic