Zion Williamson

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Basketball player
Zion Williamson
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Player information
Full name Zion Lateef Williamson
birthday 6th July 2000 (age 20)
place of birth Salisbury, North Carolina , USA
size 198 cm
Weight 129 kg
position Power forward
college Duke
NBA draft 2019 , 1st pick, New Orleans Pelicans
Club information
society New Orleans Pelicans
league NBA
Jersey number 1
Clubs as active
2019– United StatesUnited States New Orleans Pelicans

Zion Lateef Williamson (born July 6, 2000 in Salisbury, North Carolina ) is an American basketball player . He was in the draft process of the NBA  in the first place by the 2019 New Orleans Pelicans  selected and is considered to match any opinions as is currently the most promising talent since LeBron James .

youth

Williamson was born on July 6, 2000 in Salisbury, North Carolina to Lateef Williamson and Sharonda Sampson. It was named after the biblical place Mount Zion in Jerusalem . During his childhood, Williamson played several sports, including soccer and American football .

Player profile

Williamson at the slam dunk

Williamson has an exceptional physique. His currently officially stated height is 1.98 meters and his weight is 129 kilograms. Despite his rather small to average height for an NBA player, Williamson was the third heaviest player in the league in the 2019/20 season (behind Boban Marjanović and Tacko Fall ). For comparison: the former superstar Michael Jordan , who is the same height as Williamson, weighed about 30 kg less than Williamson during his playing days. Despite this large mass, Williamson has enormous jumping ability and athleticism.

Career

High school and college

Williamson first played at Johnakin Middle School in Marion , South Carolina, where he averaged 20 points per game. Just before ninth grade, Williamson enrolled at Spartanburg Day School, a small private school in Spartanburg , South Carolina , where he served four seasons for the high school basketball team.

Between the eighth and ninth grades, he grew from 1.75 m to 1.91 m. In the freshman year of his high school career, he averaged 24.4 points, 9.4 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 3.3 steals and 3.0 blocks per encounter. In his sophomore season, Williamson averaged 28.3 points, 10.4 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game. He led his team to the first ever South Carolina Independent School Association (SCISA) championship win in school history.

In his junior year, Williamson averaged 36.8 points and 13.0 rebounds per game and led his team to their second national championship in the final with 51 points. In his senior year, Williamson averaged 36.4 points and 11.4 rebounds per game and won his third straight national championship title.

Williamson as a College Player at Duke University (2018)

In the forward position he was the best high school player of his year and moved to Duke University in Durham , North Carolina in 2018 to play under coach Mike Krzyzewski for the "Blue Devils" in the first NCAA division. On November 6, 2018, in his first regular season game with Duke, he scored 28 points in 23 minutes in eleven of 13 throws from the field in a 118-84 win over the University of Kentucky team .

In 2019, Zion Williamson led Duke University to the title in the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 73:63 against Florida State. The 18-year-old put up 21 points, five rebounds and two assists in 40 minutes in the final. He was voted the best player of the final tournament.

According to the media and experts, Williamson was a contender for first place in the 2019 NBA draft . Williamson came for the team of Duke University to 33 missions (in which he was without exception in the starting line-up) and scored an average of 22.6 points per encounter, which he achieved together with RJ Barrett the team maximum. Williamson also had 8.9 rebounds, 2.1 ball wins and 1.8 blocks per game.

In mid-April 2019, he announced that he would end his university career prematurely, register for the NBA draft process and thus take the step into the professional camp.

NBA (since 2019)

As expected, in the 2019 NBA draft , the New Orleans Pelicans secured the rights to the forward in first place. Williamson was considered the most promising talent since superstar LeBron James at the time of the draft .

In the pre-season, Williamson played four games for the Pelicans. He was on the field for an average of 27.2 minutes, scored 23.2 points per encounter (eighth best value in the pre-season phase), 6.5 rebounds and prepared 2.2 basket successes for his fellow men.

Shortly before the start of the 2019/20 season, Williamson had to undergo knee surgery due to a torn meniscus. He therefore missed the first 44 games of the season. Williamson only made his debut with the Pelicans and thus in the NBA on January 22, 2020 in the game against the San Antonio Spurs . However, his 22 points, seven rebounds and three assists in 18 minutes of play were not enough to prevent the 117: 121 defeat. Williamson converted eight of his eleven throws (4 of 7 two-point throws, 4 of 4 three-point throws), scored 17 of his points in a good three minutes in the last quarter and thus brought his previous team back into the game almost single-handedly. Williamson scored four threes in a row, which he had never succeeded in college.

Others

On July 23, 2019, Williamson signed a shoe deal with Jordan Brand .

Achievements and Awards

High school

  • South Carolina Mr. Basketball: 2018

college

  • Player of the Year (named by AP): 2019
  • Player of the Year (named by NABC): 2019
  • Wayman Tisdale Award: 2019
  • Karl Malone Award: 2019
  • Consensus First-Team All-American: 2019
  • ACC Player of the Year: 2019
  • ACC Athlete of the Year: 2019
  • ACC Tournament MVP: 2019
  • First-Team All-ACC: 2019
  • ACC Rookie of the Year: 2019
  • Sporting News First-Team All-American: 2019

statistics

Legend
  GP Matches played (Games Played)   GS  Games from the beginning (Games started)  MPG  Graduated minutes per game (Minutes per game)
 FG%  Throw rate from the field (field goal percentage)  3P%  Throwing quota three-point throws (3-point field-goal percentage)  FT%  Free throw rate (free-throw percentage)
 RPG  Rebounds per game (rebounds per game)  APG  Assists per game (assists per game)  SPG  Steals per game (steals per game)
 BPG  Blocks per game (blocks per game)  PPG  Points per game (points per game)  FAT  Career record

college

season team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2018–19 Duke 33 33 30.0 .680 .338 .640 8.9 2.1 2.1 1.8 22.6

Web links

Commons : Zion Williamson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.nba.com/players/zion/williamson/1629627
  2. ↑ a b Dailymail.co.uk: Zion Williamson is the most exciting NBA prospect since LeBron James. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ One of nation's top basketball recruits resides in Spartanburg, says Coach K offered scholarship . In: charlotteobserver . ( charlotteobserver.com ).
  4. ↑ a b c Williamson drawing attention as one of 2018's finest . In: thestate . ( thestate.com ).
  5. ↑ Zion Williamson's official height and weight measurements at Duke are hard to believe . In: CBSSports.com . ( cbssports.com ).
  6. ↑ Chick-fil-A Classic: Zion Williamson is taking the country by storm . In: USA TODAY High School Sports . December 23, 2016 ( usatodayhss.com ).
  7. ↑ The legend of basketball phenom Zion Williamson . In: kentucky . ( kentucky.com ).
  8. ↑ Zion Williamson scored 51 points in a championship game and had another jaw-dropping dunk . In: SBNation.com . ( sbnation.com ).
  9. ↑ VIDEO: The ultimate Zion Williamson senior highlight reel . In: USA TODAY High School Sports . May 8, 2018 ( usatodayhss.com ).
  10. ↑ dunking phenom Williamson commits to Duke . In: ESPN.com . ( espn.com ).
  11. ↑ Duke 118-84 Kentucky: Final | 2018-11-06 | College basketball | Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Zion Williamson leads Duke to ACC Title - Most Valuable Player of the Tournament. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
  13. ↑ 2019 Mock Draft | NBADraft.net. Retrieved April 22, 2019 .
  14. ↑ 2019 NBA Draft: Duke's Zion Williamson, projected No. 1 pick, announces that he will enter draft. Accessed April 22, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Stats (PDF); Duke Combined Team Statistics (as of Mar 31, 2019). Accessed April 22, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Zion Williamson Declares for 2019 NBA Draft. In: goduke.com. Accessed April 22, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Hunter Felt: NBA draft 2019: Zion Williamson goes No1 to Pelicans - as it happened . In: The Guardian . June 21, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed June 21, 2019]).
  18. ↑ Sport1.de: NBA: Zion Williamson is missing from the New Orleans Pelicans with a meniscus injury. Retrieved October 22, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Reuters: Zion Williamson delivers in NBA debut with 17-point fourth-quarter outburst . In: The Guardian . January 23, 2020, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed January 23, 2020]).
  20. ↑ Sport1.de: NBA: Zion Williamson signs shoe contract with Jordan Brand. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Barrett, Williamson top McDonald's rosters . In: ESPN.com . ( espn.com ).
  22. ^ South Carolina Mr. Basketball Awards - RealGM. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
  23. ^ Zion wins AP men's college basketball player of the year. Accessed April 10, 2019 .
  24. ↑ WRAL: Williamson's win makes Duke the record holder for NABC POY awards:. April 3, 2019, accessed April 10, 2019 .
  25. ↑ USBWA> News> Wayman Tisdale Award Winner. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
  26. ^ Duke Basketball: Zion Williamson wins the Karl Malone Award. April 13, 2019, Retrieved November 26, 2019 (American English).
  27. ^ Williams Named Unanimous Consensus First-Team All-American. Accessed April 10, 2019 .
  28. ↑ a b c Zion named ACC's top player, rookie of the year. March 11, 2019, accessed March 11, 2019 .
  29. ^ Duke's Williamson, North Carolina's Hoffman Voted ACC Athletes of the Year. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
  30. ↑ Adam Zagoria: Zion Williamson Named Most Valuable Player of ACC Tournament As Duke Wraps Up a No. 1 seed. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
  31. ↑ Sporting News' 2018-19 college basketball All-Americans. March 11, 2019, accessed March 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Williamson, Zion
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williamson, Zion Lateef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 2000
PLACE OF BIRTH Salisbury , North Carolina