The amount of hype surrounding the New Orleans Pelicans and Zion Williamson is unreal. Fans expect the young team to play exciting basketball once the season kicks off.
However, there's one thing you cannot count Zion to be great at: singing your favorite hits at the karaoke bar.
The New Orleans Pelicans had an open scrimmage where more than 10,000 fans showed up to see their star rookie play in team colors. During an intermission, the crowd asked him to sing a popular song.
While Zion did everything he could to avoid the punishment, he could not avoid it as it's part of being a rookie. The track that was chosen was “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.”
Andrew Lopez captured the moment of Zion trying to belt out the chorus of the Whitney Houston hit:
After Zion was booed for not singing the first verse, here’s him belting out some parts of I Wanna Dance With Somebody. pic.twitter.com/KHHathIb7M
— Andrew Lopez (@_Andrew_Lopez) October 6, 2019
However, he wasn't the only Pelican who had to suffer the humiliation of singing in front of 10,000 adoring fans. Fellow rookie Nickeil Alexander-Walker had to sing Vanessa Carlton's iconic “A Thousand Miles”.
And I have to say: he had some pretty great pipes for a basketball player:
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While everything's all chipper at New Orleans, fans shouldn't expect Zion to come out of the gate with monstrous numbers. According to him, his priority is the team and the team alone.
CBS Sports revealed more of his unselfish mindset:
“If we're winning and we're in the playoffs I'm happy,” Williamson said via ESPN. “I don't need numbers, if we're winning, you can't ask for much more than that.”
“Growing up, I've always been about my brothers and my squad,” Williamson said. “So it's natural to me when everyone is having fun and everyone is succeeding, the individual stuff will follow.”
Those are great answers for a rookie who hasn't played a minute of NBA basketball yet. If his words get translated to action, there's little to no doubt that the Big Easy will see very entertaining basketball from here on out.
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