New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson said he wanted to stay at Duke for another year but his family and coach Mike Krzyzewski convinced him to declare for the NBA Draft.
“I wanted to go back,” Williamson said. “Nobody ever believes me. They think I’m just saying that. I genuinely wanted to go back. I felt like the NBA wasn’t going anywhere. The money thing, that’s money. I don’t play this for money. I play this because I genuinely love the game. I just loved my experience at Duke so much that I wanted to stay.”
“But it was one of those situations where Coach K is not going to let me come back. He wants me to do what’s best for my family. My teammates were saying, ‘It would be dope if you came back’ but at the same time, they were telling me that I would be leaving too much…At the end of the day, it was kind of my mom. She said she was going to support me in whatever I do. So I was like ‘I’m going back!’ I think her and my stepdad talked and said, ‘You worked too hard to get to this moment. You’d feel bad if you left it. So I said I did work for this since I was 4 or 5 so let me go.”
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