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Looking forany autographMo Williams
One collector is trying to find a single signature from every man who ever played for the Jazz — all 370 of them, from the 1974 New Orleans team to today. For many of them, this page is the only one on the internet. Here is Mo Williams: what he did on the floor, a few things most people never knew, and every card that carries his name. If you own something he signed — or you know who might — there is a note at the foot of this page.
Jackson, Mississippi produced him, Alabama refined him — a freshman starter on a 27–8 SEC championship team — and Utah drafted him 47th in 2003. The Jazz declined to match Milwaukee's offer sheet after his rookie year, then watched him become a 2009 All-Star in Cleveland. He came back to Utah late in his career and won the 2016 championship with the Cavaliers before retiring in 2017.
The whistle came next: assistant at Cal State Northridge, head coach at Alabama State, then head coach at Jackson State in his hometown, and in March 2026 an assistant's chair at Kentucky under one of the sport's biggest programs.
HOW HE CAME & WENTUtah drafted him 47th in 2003 then declined to match Milwaukee's $5.5 million offer sheet in August 2004 — a call Kevin O'Connor later named the worst of his tenure. A four-team trade brought him back in June 2012 and Portland signed him in 2013.
- Full name
- Maurice Williams
- Utah Jazz tenure
- 2003–13
- Position
- Guard
- Born
- 1982, Jackson, Mississippi
- Height
- 6′1″ (185 cm)
- Weight
- 198 lb (90 kg)
- College
- Alabama
- Drafted
- 2003, 2nd round (No. 47), Utah
A card. A photo. A program. A page from an old autograph book. Anything he put his name on.
You do not need to know what it is. Take a photo with your phone and send it to me. I will tell you what you have, for free, whether or not anything comes of it. I pay the postage both ways. I answer every message myself, usually the same day.
With the Jazz
MO WILLIAMS · 2003–13 · PER GAME| SEASON | TEAM | G | MPG | PPG | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003–04 | UTA | 57 | 13.5 | 5.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | .380 | .256 | .786 |
| 2012–13 | UTA | 46 | 30.8 | 12.9 | 2.4 | 6.2 | 1.0 | 0.2 | .430 | .383 | .882 |
| JAZZ TOTAL | 2 SEASONS | 103 | 21.3 | 8.5 | 1.8 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | .411 | .358 | .844 |
Season by season, regular season, with this franchise only. More info: Basketball-Reference ↗ · Wikipedia ↗
Did you know
MO WILLIAMS · 8 NOTES- Had two separate spells with the Jazz, eight years apart.
- The trade that sent him to the Clippers gave Cleveland the draft pick that became Kyrie Irving.
- He scored 52 points against Indiana in January 2015, a Minnesota franchise record that ended a 15-game losing streak.
- He credits his career to 5 a.m. workouts at the YMCA on Fortification Street in Jackson every day of high school.
- In Cleveland he wore number 2 because his usual number 25 had been retired for Mark Price.
- In 2015 he became the first player to win Player of the Week in both conferences in the same season since the award was split by conference in 2001-02.
- Carlos Arroyo and Raul Lopez were both ahead of him at point guard in 2004, which is why the Jazz let Milwaukee's offer sheet stand.
- He said he wanted to stay in Utah after 2012-13, but the club moved on and he chose Portland, drawn by his ties to Neil Olshey and Terry Stotts.