He saw her deliver a pizza on a different website

“Yeah its a few things id tell my younger self”

RJ best of that draft class

I mean, he was 21/6/3 on 60% shooting last year. He hasn’t lived up to his potential, but wasn’t garbage

Buddy The Zion Company sounds like a religious repair shop.

Buddy thinks he’s holding his stock when in reality there aren’t any buyers.

for cheeseburgers more like

type shit

8 years in the NBA is exceptional he just had a very high bar to meet.

Idk. I had to go through mistakes to learn shit. It’s just life. I think there is value in our experiences so long as we learn from them.

It’s possible his failures and controversies in the NBA has matured him. Maturity requires acceptance of what has happened in order to move forward. And for Zion that might not be with an all-star NBA career, but for later in life.

I disagree. Who’s to say there’s not maturity in recognizing who he was as a 19 year old? Would that kid have listened or were there mistakes he simply needed to make in order to grow?

Recognizing that one made mistakes is different from ruminating on what should have been done differently. To some extent, counterfactuals of the past are not anywhere as interesting as trying to understand what must be done now.

If he answered the latter with any sort of obliviousness, sure. Blast away. But recognizing the futility of continually interrogating the past isn’t immature.

You can always view things in hindsight, but truthfully I think Zion’s answer is a lot more mature than the other option.

He could’ve reflected on it, obviously, but the ultimate conclusion of “there isn’t anything I’d have wanted to do differently because I wouldn’t have learned it if I did” is a rather nuanced understanding of life.

How so?

He’s likely aware of the stuff people constantly talk about whenever his name is mentioned online, I think he’s just being smart in his answer and not giving the media any soundbite where he brings up whatever specific regret would have come up in his mind

I don’t think thats what he is saying. I am taking it as, “if I didnt go through what I experienced, I wouldnt be who I am today.” Which feels reasonable to me.

Unless he’s being introspective and admitting that he was an idiot who wouldn’t have listened regardless

Also stop fucking every gold chasing whore in his vicinity.

Yes

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45393231/zion-williamson-sued-allegations-rape-years-abuse

I’ll never forget him being so explosive plus heavy that he exploded his god damn shoe. Duke Zion was a different animal.

He’s barely played in 7 years. He’s got ONE season of over 65 games where he made it to 70. Then he only has two other years breaking 60 games at 61 and 62. He’s averaging 42 games played a season for his career so far (and that’s EXCLUDING the year he missed completely). That’s one game more than half of the season. Plenty of reasons to write him off. Rare for dudes to turn 30 and suddenly get healthy.

He’s a victim of his draft hype. Had it not been decided that he was the number one draft pick by a country mile in his class his injuries would be lamented as a missed opportunity rather than ridiculed for missing so many games.

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What? Why would playing 39 games a year over a 7 year career have anything to do with “new bloods”.

He also actually played a decent amount last year and was pretty much just an okay player.

Ben has legit injuries that took him down. At his peak he was a DPOY candidate and elite facilitator.

I know people meme him but it doesn’t feel fair to put him with Zion and Ja who have done nothing relative to him.

Ja could have been modern day Derrick Rose

I’m sure Zion went through his past, reconciled with his flaws, studied determinism, and came to his conclusion.

Also Einstein was wrong about a lot of things in physics because he wrongly believed in determinism.  Einstein was introspective and also brilliant, but also wrong many times.

These are excuses people make for their behavior because they can’t reconcile they wasted parts of their life or hurt other people.

Hes just putting up numbers. Hes paid a huge contract, 0 playoff wins for his team, and averges about 40 games per season over the last 5

We all float down here, Georgie

He has way more money than you do and that goes a really long way and solves a ton of problems, but you don’t really know if his life is better than yours or if he’s happier than you.

He also has a nonzero chance of going broke when he’s done playing.