New Orleans Pelicans NBA player Zion Williamsonhas been the main target of a barrage of criticism and finger-pointing in recent years as a result of his excess weight, but it seems that his strongest critics on social media can finally no longer talk about it.
The reality is that Williamson recently celebrated his first basketball camp in Spartanburg, North Carolina in the United States, where he was posing for photos that he took with the campers and the same show that the former Duke University player in the NCAA has noticeably lost weight, which is something quite unexpected and shocking, especially given the good physical condition that Zion looks in.
A fairly strict but effective diet
According to information from Ian Casselberry of Yahoo Sports, Zion apparently hasn’t finished yet with the strict diet he’s currently on. He weighs a total of 270 pounds, two less than he did in college, and his plan is pretty clear: to reach a goal to reduce even more in hopes of reaching 270 pounds by the start of the new and upcoming NBA season, which is scheduled for next October.
Williamson was one of the most promising players, from Mayr talent and projection since he arrived in the NBA in the 2019 season, when he was selected number 1 in the rookie draft by the New Orleans Pelicans. And from day one he showed himself to be a fairly dominant, athletic player who impressed every time he had to finish the play at the rim.
However, not everything is rosy, and the continuous injuries The problems he has suffered in these five seasons in the NBA, many of them caused by his excess weight, have not allowed him to establish himself among the best players in the League.
A clause in his contract penalizes his overweight
His form in most of the last few years has left There is much to be desired, especially due to his difficulties in controlling his weight and being able to have a diet suitable for an elite athlete, and most importantly, being consistent and disciplined with it. This has slowed down his progress on the court and has negatively affected the Pelicans in recent years, who see him as the spearhead of a great project in the NBA to be a contender for many years.
In New Orleans he was repeatedly warned about the need to take care of his weight, to the point that they even included a clause in his contract that will penalize his salary of 231 million for five years if the sum of his weight and his fat percentage is not less than 133 kilos.
“It’s hard, man. I’m 22, I have all the money “In the world, well… it feels like all the money in the world. It’s hard,” Zion Williamson admitted two years ago on the ‘Gil’s Arena’ podcast when he was asked about eating healthy to stay in shape. He already recognized that he had a problem.
He is 1.98m tall and weighed 136 kilos in 2021.
This inadequate diet led him to weigh a total of 136 kilos. in the summer of the 2021 campaign, a rather alarming figure considering that he is only 1.98 meters tall (6’6 feet tall). To exemplify the delicate situation with Zion, the Serbian center Boban Marjanovic, who last season played for the Houston Rockets, weighs 132 kilos but is 2.24 meters tall.
“I have surrounded myself with people who know how to help me. to reach my best form and to move away from the trait of invincibility that we young people have.”
Numbers that are exciting if he remains healthy
Last season, Zion averaged a total of 22.9 points5.8 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.7 blocks per game. And he played in 70 games, the most in his five-year NBA career, largely because he took better care of himself.
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