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Follow the Nets' return to New York with Newsday's Rod Boone.

Deron: Cuban's absence helped spur decision to stay

Deron Williams talks to his teammates during practice

Photo credit: Patrick E. McCarthy

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Deron Williams had a few questions for Mark Cuban during free agency, ones that only the Mavericks' owner could truly answer.

But Cuban was in Los Angeles shooting his ABC show "Shark Tank," leaving it up to Mavs coach Rick Carlisle, president of basketball operations of Donnie Nelson and consultant Michael Finley.

Asked after practice Monday at the...

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