{"id":145544,"date":"2020-04-28T22:44:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T20:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=145544"},"modified":"2020-04-28T22:44:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T20:44:41","slug":"zion-williamson-says-that-ja-morant-has-earned-front-runner-status-for-rookie-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/zion-williamson-says-that-ja-morant-has-earned-front-runner-status-for-rookie-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Zion Williamson says that Ja Morant has earned front-runner status for Rookie of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to Ernie Johnson\u2019s NBA Together on Monday night, New Orleans Pelicans\u2019 rookie Zion Williamson spoke on the Rookie of the Year race and how he sees things playing out.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Johnson asked Zion Williamson how he felt about Morant being the front-runner for the award: \u201cJa being a brother of mine, I\u2019m happy for Ja. Ja has worked for [the opportunity to be the front-runner], he\u2019s earned it. I give respect when it\u2019s due. I always do. But you know, as a competitor \u2014 I\u2019m just a competitor \u2014\u00a0 I want to win at everything, I\u2019m not going to sit here and say I don\u2019t want to win, I want to win at everything. So, my goal was if I could rally my team into the playoffs hopefully I could make a run for [ROY]. It\u2019s just God\u2019s plan at this point\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBATogether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBATogether<\/a> with Ernie Johnson (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TurnerSportsEJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TurnerSportsEJ<\/a>) begins now with No. 1 overall pick <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zionwilliamson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Zionwilliamson<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C03FCETeVK\">https:\/\/t.co\/C03FCETeVK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1254908224832180224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williamson has been a guest of #NBATogether with Ernie Johnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[6419,3685],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-145544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-ja-morant-en","tag-zion-williamson-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145544"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=145544"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=145544"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=145544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}