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New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson had a strong stretch during the team’s first seeding game against the Utah Jazz on Thursday. Williamson scored 13 points on 6-for-8 shooting as the Pels built an early lead. However, as New Orleans’ offense sputtered and the lead dwindled to single digits, Williamson remained on the bench. The Pelicans […]

One of the main talking points for the New Orleans Pelicans coming into the restart is the strict minutes restrictions the coaching staff has given on rookie sensation Zion Williamson. However, after another loss on Saturday against the Los Angeles Clippers, head coach Alvin Gentry explained another aspect his team must focus on aside from […]

New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson will have an “incremental increase” in minutes against the Los Angeles Clippers, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Williamson will be playing closer to 20 minutes than 30 minutes a game and he’ll also be ending quarters, instead of starting them, Woj said on ESPN’s “Countdown.” Woj on ESPN’s “Countdown” says Zion will […]

In a lengthy interview with reporters on Friday, New Orleans Pelicans executive vice president David Griffin emphasized that Zion Williamson won’t play significant minutes in their next two seeding games. Williamson only played 15 minutes on Thursday against the Utah Jazz. Pelicans fans and NBA pundits were confused by Williamson’s playing time since every game […]

New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson only played 15 minutes against the Utah Jazz on Thursday in the first game of the NBA restart, and he may not have been happy about it. Appearing on The Dan Patrick Show, Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes said Williamson was “pissed” about his minutes restriction (starts at 37:24 mark): The […]

The NBA officially resumed the 2019-20 regular season on Thursday night with a pair of thrilling Western Conference matchups. First on the slate was the Utah Jazz and New Orleans Pelicans — two teams vying for playoff positioning. The Jazz pulled out a 106-104 victory after trailing by as much as 16 earlier in the […]

One of the biggest surprises of Thursday’s opening matchup between the New Orleans Pelicans and Utah Jazz was the strict minutes limit imposed on rookie sensation Zion Williamson. The 20-year-old logged just 15 minutes of action for his team and was unable to help his side down the stretch, as the Pelicans suffered a heartbreaking […]

The much-awaited restart of the NBA 2019-20 season brought along some sloppy play, exciting results, and a few questions surrounding the New Orleans Pelicans and their strategy concerning rookie Zion Williamson, who played only 15 minutes in the opener. Perhaps the most dumbfounding part of this severe minutes limitation is that Williamson played ZERO crunch-time […]

In their first seeding game against the Utah Jazz on Thursday, New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson played a mere 15 minutes. Concerns about his health and conditioning were behind the move, but Williamson shut these worries down. Per Ben Golliver of The Washington Post, Zion Williamson shared that him playing limited minutes is a […]

Of course, it comes down to Rudy Gobert. In the official start of the 2019-20 NBA season in Orlando, the man whose positive COVID-19 test prompted the league’s hiatus, hit two game-winning free throws with 6.9 seconds remaining to give the Utah Jazz a 106-104 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans. Utah started strong, but […]

New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson hit Lonzo Ball with a beautiful behind-the-back pass against the Utah Jazz on Thursday. Zion's dropping absolute dimes 😱 pic.twitter.com/0Mf8pCkWHX — ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) July 31, 2020 This is why so many NBA fans want to see the Pelicans in the playoffs. Williamson is already one of the most exciting […]

The New Orleans Pelicans are facing the Utah Jazz in the first NBA seeding game in Orlando. Lonzo Ball and Zion Williamson wasted little time getting back into the swing of things. Lonzo connected with Zion for a big alley-oop in the second quarter, with Williamson leveraging post position and spinning off to go get […]

Minutes before Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans faced Donovan Mitchell and the Utah Jazz in the opening game of the restarted 2019-20 NBA season, they came together to protest racial injustice. While donning warm-up shirts that read “Black Lives Matter”, the teams stood alongside each other on opposite sidelines while a video played […]

New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson will play against the Utah Jazz on Thursday, per Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports. Williamson will play in short bursts. New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson will play today against the Utah Jazz in the restart opener, league sources tell Yahoo Sports. — Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) July 30, 2020 […]

The NBA restart is finally upon us. We are now just hours away before the coronavirus-shortened campaign returns from a four-month hiatus that honestly felt like a lifetime. Tipping things off will be the Utah Jazz taking on the New Orleans Pelicans on Thursday night, in what should be an exciting battle between two formidable teams […]

New Orleans Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry knows that he has one of the most-hyped players under his wing. But at the end of the day, Gentry knows that Zion Williamson is just a ‘kid.’ It’s unfair to put major expectations on the rookie just because of his own hype. Gentry spoke with the media […]

New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson left the NBA bubble in Orlando on July 16 to tend to a family emergency. He returned to Disney World last Friday, went through a four-day quarantine and is now cleared to be with with the team. When asked about the situation on Wednesday, Williamson would understandably not provide […]

New Orleans Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry is aware that his team has a chance to make the playoffs in the NBA restart. He’s also aware of Zion Williamson’s oozing talent, and how they want the young gun to be healthy in the long run. In Gentry’s media availability on Tuesday, the head coach shared […]

Despite their mission to break into the Top 8 in the Western Conference, New Orleans Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry is still taking the cautious approach with his super rookie Zion Williamson. The top overall pick of the 2019 Draft just returned to the bubble in Orlando, Florida last week after leaving to deal with […]

New Orleans Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin says he expects rookie Zion Williamson to join the team in practice by Wednesday. Williamson returned to Orlando on Friday night after leaving the NBA bubble for eight days because of a family emergency: “In theory, his quarantine would end Tuesday afternoon-ish,” Griffin said on […]

Supporters of the New Orleans Pelicans can now breathe a sigh of relief with regard to the status of their young phenom, Zion Williamson. NBA insider Shams Charania has just revealed that after returning from a quick personal trip outside the Disney World bubble, Williamson should be available for his team’s first scrimmage game on […]

The New Orleans Pelicans will once again take some extreme caution with their prized rookie Zion Williamson following his return inside the bubble at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. The 20-year-old Duke product left the Orlando facilities last week to tend to a sensitive family medical emergency. While his return is certainly great news for […]

New Orleans Pelicans star rookie Zion Williamson is back in the “bubble.” The first-year big man out of Duke — who is the first overall selection in the 2019 NBA Draft by New Orleans — had to skedaddle roughly a week ago due to a family emergency. Unfortunately, it coincided with the team and the […]

The New Orleans Pelicans have released a statement on the status of rookie Zion Williamson. Last week, Williamson left the Orlando bubble to tend to a family emergency. Williamson is getting daily COVID-19 tests and continues to test negative. While it’s unclear when he’ll return to the bubble, he plans on coming back at some […]

According to Matt Urban of thefalconswire.com, Gatorade rolled out a new commercial starring high-profile athletes from various sports. Those stars included Elena Delle Donne of the Washington Mystics in the WNBA, American sprinter and hurdler Sydney McLaughlin, Bryce Harper of the Philadelphia Phillies in the MLB, Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelicans in the […]

The New Orleans Pelicans are heading into the NBA restart in a virtual tie for the No. 9 seed in the Western Conference. But the Pelicans would have been a mid-level playoff seed if Zion Williamson had been healthy all year, according to Josh Hart. Via Jonathan Abrams of Bleacher Report: “The addition of him […]

Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelicans had to leave the NBA “bubble” in Orlando, Florida ahead of teams returning to action in two weeks, and his teammate JJ Redick discussed what he told the rookie after Zion was forced out of the bubble due to a “family emergency.” “I reached out to Zion and […]

The New Orleans Pelicans announced on Thursday that Zion Williamson left the Orlando bubble to attend to family health matters. New Orleans, likewise, expects the rookie star to rejoin the team at the Walt Disney World complex at a later date. While his status to return is still up in the air, Pelicans head coach […]

The restart of the 2019-20 NBA season is merely days away and the New Orleans Pelicans have some clutch decisions to make, depending on when they get their star rookie Zion Williamson back on the court. Even if the 20-year-old, who recently left the bubble due to a family emergency, returns in time to play […]

Zion Williamson suddenly departing from the NBA bubble made a splash two weeks before the restart of the 2019-20 season, as the New Orleans Pelicans rookie had to tend to “an urgent family matter.” Couple that with reports that Williamson struggled with leg cramps during practice, and the Pelicans have a wave of headaches to […]

New Orleans Pelicans star rookie Zion Williamson has just left the NBA Bubble in Orlando to attend to an “urgent family medical matter”. In his absence, the Pelicans are holding on to their next man up mentality that has worked for them all season. “He’s a great player we’ll miss, but one thing we’ve always […]

New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson experienced leg cramps throughout the week and missed parts of practice before leaving the NBA bubble to tend to “an urgent family matter,” according to Shams Charania of The Athletic. The cramps were not the reason for his exit, as medical personnel said he is “fine” and the cramping […]

New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson has left the NBA bubble in Orlando due to an urgent family medical emergency, the team announced on Thursday. The rookie stud plans to rejoin the team at the Walt Disney World complex at a later time. “We fully support Zion’s decision to leave the NBA campus to be […]

The alleged representative who purportedly paid Zion Williamson’s stepfather $400,000 while the 6-foot-6 phenom was enrolled at Duke University admitted he was conned by someone pretending to be in the New Orleans Pelicans rookie’s inner circle. In a story that gets stranger by the second, Slavko Duric, a Canadian marketing representative shown as the president […]

The 22 NBA teams at the “bubble” in Orlando are ramping up preparations with the restart scheduled for the end of this month. It has been a long layoff, and many teams–including the New Orleans Pelicans–have already begun intrasquad scrimmages. Zion Williamson appears to be dominating these scrimmages. Zion out here bullying 😤 (via @NBA) pic.twitter.com/L13F9mVvxi […]

During a conference call with reporters on Friday, New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson spoke about how the quarantine period made him feel like he was “5 years old again.” In order to get ready for the “bubble” games at Disney World, Williamson worked out with his stepfather during the hiatus and relearned all the […]

Zion Williamson seemed to be on his way to an easy win after the latest findings from his lawsuit saw the judge rule in his favor. However, the New Orleans Pelicans star’s former marketing agent, Gina Ford, has found and filed for newly-discovered evidence in the North Carolina federal lawsuit. A new affidavit claims Williamson […]

Just like the rest of us, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has spent a lot of time under self-quarantine as well. But unlike the rest of us, Mahomes just recently got half a billion dollars richer. But might there be an NBA player that’s cut from the same superstar cloth as Mahomes? The big […]

Everyone’s eyes are on Memphis Grizzlies rookie sensation Ja Morant. His chances of nabbing the NBA Rookie of the Year is his to lose but is still constantly being challenged by New Orleans Pelicans power forward Zion Williamson.  Like many top NBA players, Morant has a ton of interesting tattoos. Over the quarantine, Morant took […]