It was still Tuesday night in Las Vegas, where Deron Williams is participating in Team USA's pre-London training camp, but just before 1 a.m. Wednesday on the East Coast — nearly an hour after the 12:01 a.m. end of the "moratorium period" during which NBA teams and players could negotiate, but not officially sign contracts — the most coveted player in the 2012 free-agent class put pen to paper on his new five-year contract , reportedly worth the maximum $98.8 million, to run the floor for the new-look Brooklyn Nets. Or, rather, as you see above, the 28-year-old point guard put finger to touch-screen, signing the deal on his iPad and tweeting a photo of the occasion , just as he'd shared his decision to stay with the Nets via Twitter on July 3 . Plus, now that Williams is going to be making nearly nine figures over five years, he can afford to buy a stylus for his iPad. (Penmanship counts, Deron, even if it's not really a pen.) About a half-hour later — maybe Deron's hotel Wi-Fi was slow — Brooklyn officially announced the signing , issuing a release in which general manager Billy King referred to Williams as "in my opinion the top point guard in the NBA"...