Entering his fifth year in the NBA, Pelicans star forward Zion Williamson has been the subject of trade rumors following a season in which he appeared in only 29 games. But according to a key New Orleans executive, that hasn’t changed the relationship Williamson has with the front office.
Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin spoke to SiriusXM Radio on Wednesday at NBA Summer League, detailing why he believes the bond between the team and Williamson is “as good as it’s ever been.”
“I think what’s unfortunate is he is a name that generates clicks no matter what the link says. ‘Zion puts on his socks’—people click on that,” Griffin said of the coverage Williamson has gotten this offseason. “And so it makes it really easy for people to manufacture rumor around him because they don’t have to have any kind of actual credibility behind what they say to generate clicks.”
