Screenshot of Deron Williams' tweet with a photo of him signing a contract with the Brooklyn Nets on iPad (© @DeronWilliams via Twitter, http://aka.ms/DeronWilliams)

NBA star signs new megadeal on an iPad

7/11/2012

All things digital have overtaken our world, but when you're talking about signing a contract worth $98 million over five years, you might want things to be laid down in the darkest ink possible. But NBA star Deron Williams, who is working out in Vegas to get ready for the Olympics, isn't playing by your old-school rules. He put his name on such a deal last night with the Brooklyn Nets without using any ink -- instead the 28-year-old hotshot signed it on his iPad, perhaps marking a first in the NBA. He then continued to shine up his digital street cred by tweeting the news as well as posting it to Facebook. Now if he could just get a hologram to play for him.

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