The New Orleans Pelicans knelt down again. Facing the San Antonio Spurs on the road, the familiar scene was staged again, and Ingram scored 27 points to stage a single wooden difficulty again, quite a bit of drawing a sword and looking around. The pistons that won the last game against the same tank team were more like a flash in the pan and masturbated. Today's Pelicans are sleepy and tired, but the Emperor's waiting reinforcements, the Fat Tiger, have not been able to appear on the field.
So the question is, how come Zion, who said on The Team Media Day on September 28 that he expected to return at the opener, has not yet been put on the bench? The answer is that Fat Tiger, who underwent surgery for the fifth metacarpal bone repair in his right foot during the offseason, experienced sustained pain in his right foot, the foot that had undergone surgery, during the near-return 4v4 combat training. To be on the safe side, the Pelicans chose to reduce Zion's training intensity, which meant that his otherwise clear return date was once again cast in the shadow of uncertainty. According to the current mainstream speculation at ESPN, given the Pelicans' current erosion record, the Pelicans are more inclined to strategically give up this season to let Zion recuperate, and they can already start to study the young talents in the 2022 draft.
However, just letting the fat tiger recuperate at ease can really solve the problem? The former draft was seen as the pride of heaven, and the outside world thought it would be the next James' potential NBA future façade, was found to have been seriously out of shape in recent photos. Zion, who has been away from the field for so long, has not only been out of line for a long time, but also has become fat into a ball.
According to ESPN's famous McMahon, "Doncic is already 260 pounds, and Zion Williams is 70 pounds heavier than him", which means that the fat tiger has 149.6 kilograms, and the yuanlang has become "Shape Garden Lang". You should know that the "big shark" Shaquille O'Neal in the player period has only been to 147 kilograms, and today's Zion is 5 pounds fatter than the "peak" O'fat, which is terrifying, after all, O'Neal is a full 15 centimeters taller than Zion.
Zion entered the league for several seasons, but the results of the team did not see any obvious improvement, and the weight gain was a step by step. At the time of the draft, Zion's 1 meter 98 figure carried a weight of 129 kilograms, which was the second largest weight in the league after Boban, and the BMI value was as high as 32.9 and exceeded the critical value of 28 to be included in the obesity ranks. If Zion, who was full of steel muscles at that time, didn't look so obvious, then now he can't hide his fat - the BMI value has reached 38.2! Combined with the current situation that the fat tiger hurts from time to time, it is not difficult to explain it. Friends who have been to the gym know that a person with a large weight wants to lose weight, and the coach often does not recommend losing fat by running, because the load on the knee is too large, let alone the NBA level confrontation? The fat tiger's knees and right feet have become his "Achilles heel", and if you don't pay attention, I am afraid it will be too late to regret it.
The Pelicans' loss to the Nuggets was the 88th game Zion had missed in his career, and he had only played 85 games since entering the league, which also confirmed his glass attributes. Admittedly, Zion's talent is coveted, and he is healthy and omnipotent, but how to keep him healthy has become the pelican's biggest problem at the moment. Smith, a former NBA player in the ESPN commentary group, said that losing weight is actually not so difficult, and eating less can be; but Zion, who loves high-calorie drinks and pizza, can't "control his mouth and open his legs", and he seems to have no self-discipline on his body.
Thinking that Nike bet on the young "flying man" Michael Jordan, the result was a lot of money, Joe's influence in the world helped hook establish the status of big brother in one fell swoop. After Jordan, Nike can always find the person who carries the brand flag, and this responsibility originally fell on Zion. A 7-year, 75 million contract for sky-high sneakers, Nike chose to bet on the son of the new era of natural choice.
Nowadays, it seems that the hook big brother also has a time to look away, and now it seems that when Zion broke Nike's shoes with one foot, it also made Nike's stock price evaporate 1.1 billion US dollars overnight, and the responsibility is not all on Nike. If Fat Tiger pays more attention to his weight, I am afraid that he will become a new generation of "injured Zhongyong" and leave his own mark in the history of the NBA in another way that is almost humiliating.