When asked how many plates Zion planned to have at Thanksgiving he responded: “Not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven…”

LMAO

He’s got 365 ¹²⁄₂₅’s every year, some are just bigger than others

[Shams] Zion Williamson on his favorite food at thanksgiving: Turkey or ham. “I don’t compare foods with anybody,” Then he rolled up his sleeve and showed a tattoo of a pecan pie topped with ice cream. “I’ll let you interpret that however you want,” Williamson said.

And on this day I give thank for that joke

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Lmfao

I agree

And George W Bush. Don’t want to forget that one.

She thinks youre very handsome.

Did you invest in intel too? 🥲

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There’s a bunch of solid nba players in the class at least, Hunter, rj Barrett, goga are all really good, and garland and Herro have both made all star teams

Tyler Herro was the best player out of that draft. Miami completely stole one.

Injuries and controversies aside, has he really?

Career regular season averages of 22.⁴⁄₄.⁷⁄₇.4 in 31.8mpg (25.0/5.²⁄₈.3 per 75 possessions) on .554 TS% and 30.7% USG.

Elevates to 26.0/6.²⁄₈.1 in 36.8mpg (25.³⁄₆.0/7.9 per 75 possessions) on .542 TS% and 30.8 USG% in the playoffs.

When he plays and he’s healthy, he performs.

4 separate playoff appearances, 2 All-Star selections, 1 All-NBA selection, ROY, MIP, a Nike signature shoe.

What more were you realistically expecting from him by now on draft day, playing for the smallest-market franchise in the NBA?

Once he gets past his current calf strain and out of his current 10 game (yes, 10 game) shooting slump (and back with a healthier squad around him, including his massive centre), he’s likely to continue matching or exceeding those career numbers for another 3-4 years at least (still only 26 years old).

Nothing ongoing is serious enough to actually derail his career. The shooting slump isn’t “just him now”. The trash talk isn’t a big deal, the dispute with the coach was done once he served his 1-game suspension from the team, and the gun stuff was 2 ¹⁄₂ years ago. He’s fine.

It’s crazy to think that when they’re all done playing, there’s a very real chance RJ has the best career of the top 3

I don’t think anybody expected this back then but the top 3 from that draft is probably Garland, Herro & RJ Barrett

At least Ja brought his team to the playoffs once.

Ain’t no way we have people so young that they don’t remember Zion in high school

I remember the “Zion Camera” that focused on him while he was sitting on the bench in college.

Obama went to one of his games. The hype around Zion was crazy. I remember Knicks fans almost offing themselves when they didn’t win the lottery

2018-19 was legitimately such a fun college basketball season between the loaded Duke team, Zion being electric, and the great later rounds of March Madness including the Virginia-Purdue game in the Elite 8 and Virginia getting redemption in an entertaining game against Texas Tech in the final.

He actually worked on his game tho that’s the crazy part. I thought he would just be a finisher. Just hasn’t been healthy and he been losing so much it’s hard to build winning habits in that environment

I’m the same age as Zion. I was in middle school showing my teammates his clips and saying I’m glad we’re not good enough to play his team.

Just goes to show how much harder the NBA is. Things that were easy in college require a lot more work to replace in the pros.

Lissen man….The food in Louisiana is leaps and bounds better than N.C.

I gained 18lbs when I was working in Louisiana for 7 months.

Hes pretty healthy and thin right now. I actually think he his weight was a big reason he was so tough to stop his first two years. Nobody wanted a 300lb bowling ball crashing into them 30 times a game. Now he’s closer to all the other jumbo wing scorers.

It was all laughs when the Knicks drafted RJ

MJ decided to always make it personal.

Zion decided to always make it pasta.

Different people just have different priorities.

Zion picked the wrong sport, he should have been a professional eater. 

Zion: One of the best pure scorers of the last decade, 63% career true shooting on 30% usage.

OP: can’t shoot

If he at least was an elite rebounder I’d lean in your direction but I think him being now down to 5.5 rebounds a game is the last straw that makes Zion a failure beyond just his availability.

Goddamn ben Simmons was getting compared to LeBron James Lamar Odom and magic johnson. His freaking floor was seen as somewhere around grant hill

Oden never really even got off the ground due to injuries tbf

Look up Mr. Primo Pasta. He is the definition of a bust.

Oden had some poor lifestyle choices for sure but his injuries were career ending. Dude performed well the few times he was healthy. The games Roy Aldridge and oden played together were at something like a 60 win season rate.

How many advanced stats do they have named after them tho?

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Simmons was actually good for a stretch.
Then he passed up that dunk and was never the same.

Zion came into the league with crazy hype, and nothing happened.

Ben Simmons was actually nice until injuries and the yips

Ben wasn’t as hyped as Zion, there was a lot of doubters of him at LSU and some said Ingram should have gone ahead of him.

Zion was supposed to be the promised one.

I have two core memories of him that’s one of them and the other is when he got injured when his foot ripped through his shoe lol

I mean he did have an NBA ready physique as a foetus near enough, was/is an athletic phenomenon

Felt like everytime he got the ball he was hitting some ridiculous dunk or highlight reel

Different levels of expectation. Nobody expected from Bargnani what they expected from Zion. 

Primo…

Part time NBA player.

Wait til you hear about Ja morant and the entire subreddit of his little followers who insist he is the key to the grizzlies’ future and they should sacrifice everything else to keep him happy…

I get the spirit of this, but the hype wasn’t even close to Zion.

The NBA has been desparately looking for an American face of the league for the last few years and a huge reason for that is because of how underwhelming Zion was. The media was pushing him hard af for his first few years but he just never delivered

I dislike people calling someone with an injury history a bust but this guy wasn’t playing because he was eating too much and getting dogged on twitter by a porn star lol

Pels lost that play in game vs Lakers because he got hurt in Q4

This is a terrible comparison. Anything Bennett was never a consensus number one pick and his draft class was terrible. He also had zero hype compared to the massive following Zion had. People were touting Zion as the next LeBron for gods sake lol. So the expectations were much higher and he failed miserably.