{"id":320832,"date":"2023-03-08T16:07:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=320832"},"modified":"2023-03-08T16:07:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:07:20","slug":"pelicans-zion-williamson-return-remains-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/pelicans-zion-williamson-return-remains-uncertain\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans&#8217; Zion Williamson return remains uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The future of New Orleans Pelicans&#8217; young talent, Zion Williamson, remains uncertain. According to ESPN&#8217;s Brian Windhorst, Williamson is not close to returning to the court and his injury appears to have been significant.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson has not played since January 2nd. In this season, Zion played in 29 games, averaging 26 points, 7 rebounds, and 4.6 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>The team had high expectations for Williamson, who was the first overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft. However, his injury to his right foot has kept him out for a long time and the Pelicans have struggled without him, dropping in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>It is still unclear when Williamson will be able to return to the court, but his absence is having a significant impact on the Pelicans, who are trying to stay in the playoff race in the tough Western Conference of the NBA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Zion Williamson is \u2018not close\u2019 to returning, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WindhorstESPN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WindhorstESPN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think his setback was significant\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TopBallCoverage?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TopBallCoverage<\/a> ) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0HXyTXEE7m\">pic.twitter.com\/0HXyTXEE7m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNBACentral\/status\/1633479530072399874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2023<\/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>The future of New Orleans Pelicans&#8217; young talent, Zion Williamson, remains uncertain. According to ESPN&#8217;s Brian Windhorst, Williamson is not close to returning to the court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":306503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[399],"tags":[1121,1846],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-320832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-zion-williamson","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/12\/zion-williamson.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320832","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320832"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=320832"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=320832"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=320832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}