Now the joooooy of my woooorld is in ZIIIIION — thread for Zion Williamson

most exciting nba prospect since... lebron?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZSBK2yKeME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEJb8Iyv4n8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek-bVyaTRE4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swoH636CmQY

This could be the most athletic thing I’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/DjaSyNGykl

— Eric Hubbs (@BarstoolHubbs) February 10, 2019

There's a term in basketball called a "grown man rebound," but this is so far beyond a grown man rebound I dont even know what to call it. MERCY ZION pic.twitter.com/32jZEgp3Ni

— Aaron Torres (@Aaron_Torres) February 2, 2019

Wow. 6’8 280 pounds with an inside-out crossover and finish in traffic.

Zion shows you something new every game pic.twitter.com/tKrNBkjkPC

— Tommy Beer (@TommyBeer) February 2, 2019

Currently averaging 22/9/2/2/2 on 68% shooting. PER of 42

depending on yr politics hes more exciting than bron

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3NcbyzqILd8

agree

his highest self-rated dunk this year is an 8

lol

zion foot go through his shoe

just saw that, but looks like he got injured on the other leg cos of it.

Zion’s leg is too powerful for his own shoe. pic.twitter.com/gGOwCt31Ch

— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) February 21, 2019

man hope he's ok. dude is gonna need his own signature line and it's gonna have to be like 5x as strong as other shoes.

could be his right acl

didnt look bad he got right up was limping a bit

.@ZionW32 gets loose in the Nike PG 2.5 PE tonight. pic.twitter.com/yFswoRYgMx

— B/R Kicks (@brkicks) February 21, 2019

oops lol

adidas sabotage

UPDATE: Zion Williamson will not return. Knee.

— Duke Basketball (@DukeMBB) February 21, 2019

Knike.

welp guess I’m not seeing zion play on saturday anymore :’(

dang dude that sucks. this was the first college game i tuned into this year...

looked to me like the steph curry mcl sprain from the 2016 playoffs

cld see him playing on saturday, cld see him being out for the season

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dz5dsxCWoAEah5x.jpg

wtf

Unless he gets ACL surgery and won't be able to play again until the 2020-21 season, he's still the consensus #1 pick.

man he just exploded that shoe even put a rip in the sole

paul george on a conference call with nike right now im sure.

adidas is such trash. michigan's old adidas jerseys used to rip frequently. haven't seen any shoes bust, but it was only a matter of time.

https://www.michigandaily.com/sports/1-daniel-wasserman-what-i-learned-adidas-minneapolis-18

nba players should consider inventing in a good pair of boots

holy shit @ all the people who paid $3000+ to see this

thats the funny part

“His shoe broke.” pic.twitter.com/FAtpaF5uAt

— Chase Hughes (@ChaseHughesNBCS) February 21, 2019

hes right

accurate

My thoughts and prayers go out to Zion Williamson, the tremendous superstar basketball player from Duke. His injury isn't surprising though once you realize Obama was at the game. Everywhere Obama goes nothing but disappointment and pain follows!!!! Sad!!!!

— DonaId J. Trump (@SportsTalkBarry) February 21, 2019

^ why bother? it's not DJ Trump. it's not funny.

sp0rts talk b3rry is bad.

coach k said it's a mild strain so kev you might be in luck. altho if im zion im not playing another minute of college ball.

if im zion im flying to ny and getting my suit tailored and then i move into the green room for the draft until july where i am frozen in carbonite with a "fuck coach k" bumper sticker slapped on the side

otm

Duke freshman sensation Zion Williamson was forced out of Wednesday night's game against rival North Carolina after just 36 seconds with what Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski called a "mild knee sprain."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dz8Hc0TX4AAgz-r.jpg

pretty remarkable that even his injuries are somehow ridiculously athletic and impressive

this is low key the funniest basketball subplot in a while

Paul George on Zion Williamson’s injury and situation with his shoes, says he talked with Nike to find out what went wrong: pic.twitter.com/pJ3N6CEdMj

— Royce Young (@royceyoung) February 21, 2019

someone said zion needs to wear lebrons since lebron is also very powerful and imo that makes sense

hoping he makes a point of signing a shoe deal with non-nike and this remains a thing forever

lol yeah needs to happen

reading this thread from the beginning in one shot is sooooooo sad

Montage of exploding Nike shoes (Manu, Bogut, Wroten, Gordon, Zion) pic.twitter.com/FuXH2qqSiv

— David Astramskas (@redapples) February 21, 2019

hello to basketballs favored son

Pregame Zion action. pic.twitter.com/v0Ld6554gc

— Andrew Lopez (@_Andrew_Lopez) January 20, 2020

That was so much fun.

👀Impressive numbers for #Zion's debut on ESPN (Fast Nationals from Nielsen):

📺2,357,000 viewers. Peaked w/2,777,000.

⬆️Viewership up 88% vs last year's comparable game.

🏀1.6 US rating, matching ESPN's highest-rated NBA game this season (Non-XMas). Up 100% year over year. pic.twitter.com/9ZSbz6zGQv

— Ben Cafardo (@Ben_ESPN) January 23, 2020

the savior

the NBA’s freak out over ratings this year is so obviously dumb

I think a much bigger worry is cable companies refusing to pay for RSNs

lol its literally the only reason i tolerate paying for cable tv

Altitude TV still hasn’t resolved their fight with Comcast and I think a couple midwestern RSNs have died

might f around and post every zion game highlight vid until further notice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox9DxNyStxw

he grabs an alleyoop from behind the backboard and switches to his other hand and makes it somehow

duke steals it @ unc in ot after trailing like the entire game

also i was watching the end of ark/missou & the announcersaid somethinglike "i need to apologize for the deeply offensive statement i made earlier abt college gymnastics" ? lmao what did dude say

whoops meant this for the cbb thread obv

Zion did some stuff 31-9-5-1. 14 fta

+25

What's highest fg% for a rookie averaging 15+ ppg? Shaq? Wilt?

I can answer that question, Granny.
Deandre Ayton! 58.5%
Buck Williams 58.2
Zion 57.4
Shaq 56.2
Chris Webber 55.2

In his rookie season in the ABA, Artis Gilmore averaged 24 ppg on 59.8%

1st I remember being aware of Artis was in Guiness Book for highest career FG%

Artis had the misfortune of being Kareem's exact contemporary, so he was always overshadowed.

Deandre Jordan gonna smash that record

Isn’t gobert even better

nah .670 vs .638

zion posting in transition

Zion Williamson is here to save the Pelicans, and along the way, he just might save the low-post game, too. https://t.co/4rLrZo0cgI pic.twitter.com/1qZarE73yn

— Rob Mahoney (@RobMahoney) February 13, 2020

Cool. Has he been coached to do that or is it hoops instinct?

the article credits coaching but theres not any proof of it in there quotes or whatever

the one time my ex-D2 hooper friend wanted to make a point that I had no chance of guarding him if he played at >75% of his capabilities, he'd just sprint down court, get in the key, seal me off, and I was as helpless as a newborn

I miss PGs who would back down into the post, a la Magic. I guess Giannis does that fairly often huh.

westbrook does it a little. chauncey was good at it iirc

oh yep Russ. Chauncey was who came to mind as one of the last to do it. Andre Miller too.

gonna just keep upping his career high til he drops 100 hopefully
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv53nav7Eao

He's even less comprehensible in person.
https://i.imgur.com/yQIli9nr.jpg

his ~10 game highlight reel is already better than most pros full career reel

he does something truly astonishing several times a night

The Beast of the Bayou.

🎵 'King of Terror' @CLanceEnemySoil pic.twitter.com/K0x3NBe2VE

— Dunk Comp (@dunk_comp) February 26, 2020

his rebound over the top of dwight last night got me up out of my seat

Zion flying over Howard for this offensive rebound is SCARY athleticism ... pic.twitter.com/zUbkDpXViy

— Reed (@Reed_nba) February 26, 2020

with all due respect what the fuck

Zion caught this like a WR1, then went bully ball 💪 pic.twitter.com/IubA5IbXdv

— ESPN (@espn) March 4, 2020

that's......four guys

utterly absurd

like young shaq and young barkely melded into one

zion goes where he wants to

he's what we were looking for

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESU9VSgUMAANDzG?format=jpg&name=medium

lol wtf

reminds me of
http://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/zion1-4.jpg

gravity is a social construct

a thread for pictures of floating zion is likely not too far in our future

wtf looks like a video game glitch

Zion and Doncic facing off, what a wonderful world

madness

HAIL MARY TO ZION pic.twitter.com/JhD7QEEuwH

— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) March 8, 2020