“I wanted it so bad, you know?”: Monty Williams gives a teary-eyed, heartbreaking speech after the Phoenix Suns bow out of the NBA Finals

Phoenix Suns head coach Monty Williams couldn’t hide his feelings and breaks down during the postgame press conference

Monty Williams and the Phoenix Suns may have lost, but they still deserve all the credit in the world for their season.

Even when Chris Paul and Jae Crowder got to Phoenix, not many really saw them getting past the second round. But, just a few short months later, fans saw the team duking it out with the champion of the East, in the NBA Finals.

The thing that will hurt Suns fans the most though, is how close they were to winning it all. After the first 2 games, they were just two wins away from the promised land, from being the NBA champions. But of course, as we know now, those wins would never come.

After their loss, the team had to sit down for the postgame press conference. And during his turn, Monty Williams just couldn’t hold back any longer.

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“I wanted it so bad, you know?”: Monty Williams delivers a heartbreaking statement after the Suns’ loss in the finals

Monty Williams has been lauded for his maturity and humility on multiple occasions, and justifiably so. The 49-year-old has been nothing but impressive over the course of this year with Phoenix. And yes, sometimes he did make mistakes, but even some of the greatest at his position have made some horrible errors, and the Suns head coach shouldn’t be humiliated for it.

That aside, this run clearly meant a lot to Williams. And while many knew he was in pain after the loss, not everyone realized just how much it was until his press conference. Take a look at the clip in the tweet below.

damnit pic.twitter.com/qq7HJYQLLY

— Giannis Wobtetokounmpo (@WorldWideWob) July 21, 2021

Later reports on Twitter said that the head coach couldn’t stop the tears rolling down his eyes, and shared a long hug with one of his players.

Just making the finals by itself is frankly a massive feat. And given that this is still such a young team, we hope they can learn from this season, and come back even stronger during the next campaign.

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Tonoy Sengupta

Tonoy Sengupta is a Senior Editor at The SportsRush. Coming from an athletically inclined family, he has been surrounded by sports ever since he was 4 years old. But, while initially pouring all his time into Football (soccer), at 14, Tonoy discovered basketball through the countless highlights of Stephen Curry humiliating players from Curry Land. And just like that, a fiery passion for the game was ignited within Tonoy. And soon after, he decided to become a student of journalism, graduating in 2022, and choosing sports as his area of interest. Today, you can find him spending 99% of his time browsing through every type of content on every team in the NBA, before uncorking everything he has found to the world. In the 1% he isn't doing this, you can find him playing Basketball, Football, Volleyball, or practically any other sport he has had the opportunity to learn.

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