Pelicans star Zion Williamson has faced scrutiny in recent months for personal issues off the court and been a subject of trade rumors while recovering from a hamstring injury that limited him to 29 games last season. With that as a backdrop, reporters asked the 23-year-old power forward what he focused on the most this offseason.
Williamson’s response was priceless. “What I worked on was being unguardable,” he said at the team’s annual preseason media day on Monday.
In one sense, Williamson has been unguardable previously because he’s only registered one season in which he played at least 60 games, due to a string of injuries. But Pelicans general manager David Griffin said Monday that Williamson showed newfound dedication to conditioning this offseason.
