{"id":461319,"date":"2025-09-25T08:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=461319"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:41:54","slug":"jeff-teague-blasts-zion-williamson-you-get-paid-40m-to-be-in-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jeff-teague-blasts-zion-williamson-you-get-paid-40m-to-be-in-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Teague blasts Zion Williamson: You get paid $40M to be in shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1208\" data-end=\"1517\">Former NBA guard <strong data-start=\"1225\" data-end=\"1240\">Jeff Teague<\/strong> ripped <strong data-start=\"1248\" data-end=\"1267\">Zion Williamson<\/strong> after the Pelicans star\u2019s optimistic presser about his conditioning. \u201cThis is probably the dumbest press conference I\u2019ve heard. They gave you a max deal, they believed in you. You didn\u2019t believe in yourself,\u201d Teague said on the <em data-start=\"1496\" data-end=\"1506\">Club 520<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1519\" data-end=\"1735\">He doubled down on Zion\u2019s struggles: \u201cNow you decide to lock in and do what pros do\u2014take care of themselves. You get paid damn near $40 million a year to be in shape. You could have been like this three years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1737\" data-end=\"1961\">Despite averaging 24.6 points, 7.2 rebounds and 5.3 assists, Williamson\u2019s inconsistency and conditioning remain under fire. For Teague, the answer is simple: only by staying healthy and dominating can Zion silence critics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NBA guard Jeff Teague ripped Zion Williamson after the Pelicans star\u2019s optimistic presser about his conditioning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371870,"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":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-461319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/New-Orleans-Pelicans.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461319","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=461319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461319"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=461319"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=461319"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=461319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}