With new York lifting the vaccine rules, Irving is about to return as a full-time player, Simmons has begun to resume training, and after returning to the game in the near future, Zion is now the most mysterious player in the league and everyone most wants to know when he can play.
Zion's last appearance dated back to the end of last season' regular season, when Zion had just returned from injury and the Pelicans had missed the playoffs, so the Pelicans arranged for Zion and Ingram to rest for the rest of the season.
As a result, Zion was injured in the offseason, has not played any record this season until now, and there is no clue to Zion's comeback at present, to say a terrible statistic, Zion's first three seasons of his career have only played 3 more games than Oden.
The most terrifying thing is that now even the Pelicans don't know what zion is in, let alone when he will come back.
According to reporter Brian Windhorst, Zion left the team in early January to deal with his injury, and since then his relationship with the Pelicans has become estranged, and the Pelicans have not released any news about Zion in recent weeks.
And a series of team behaviors, player interviews, suggest that Zion did lose contact with the Pelicans.
Not long ago JJ did not have Dick on the show to shell out his former teammate Zion is an incompetent team core, even CJ joined such a big move did not come out to welcome CJ.
And CJ himself said that he did not know what the situation was in Zion, and that he currently knew as much as all of you here.
Not to mention that after CJ joined the Pelicans, he scored 127 points in 4 games, averaging 31.75 points per game, and Zion will not come back to the boss to become CJ.
Even the Pelicans didn't mention Zion's name at all in the email they sent to their season ticket holders to renew their 2022-23 season passes, which means that the Pelicans don't use Zion as a propaganda point now, and may not even put Zion in their future plans.
In the third season of zion's career this year, according to the rules of the NBA, Zion has the right to renew his contract with the Pelicans in advance this summer, according to salary experts, Zion's new contract can reach up to 5 years and 181 million yuan.
But in theory, it is one thing to be able to take so much, it is one thing for the Pelicans to give or not to give, and now Zion and the Pelicans are so stiff, the chances of the Pelicans directly paying money are not great, right? After all, in 19 years, the Warblers have entered the All-Star, and the Pelicans have not renewed the Warblers in advance, not to mention that Zion is now full of so many uncertainties.
To be fair, Zion, who can play healthily, definitely deserves such a big contract, after all, Zion averaged 27 points, 7.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game last year, and the whole league has seen his talent, especially in the paint.
But the problem is that Zion's health has now been marked with a big question mark, and it is even more excessive to disappear for a few weeks than when Owen suddenly disappeared and left the team to attend his sister's birthday party.
But now the Pelicans are also quite embarrassed, even if they dare to be angry, after all, this kind of talent historical level player, let go and reluctant to go, give a big contract and be afraid of the bamboo basket to hit the water empty, people David Griffin is not a particularly shrewd general manager, this is not to embarrass people.