Zion Williamson missing several weeks because of his knee: diantre, it starts …

Author of a pre-season quite exceptional, Zion Williamson salivates everyone on the NBA, but it will take a little before seeing the phenomenon in the regular season. Indeed, the number one draft 2019 will be absent for some time because of a glitch in the knee. Hope this is not the beginning of a long list of injuries.

Earlier in the day, we had already written about friend Zion to inform you that he was not going to play the last pre-season game. This absence will unfortunately continue until at least November. This Friday, Adrian Wojnarowski ofESPN swayed the breaking news: Zion Williamson will be missing for several weeks because of a problem with his right knee. The Duke-trained monster has passed tests (others are coming) and will not be able to wear the colors of his new Pelicans team for the start of the regular season. As Woj says, the Pels do not want to take absolutely no risk with their jewel. The good news in all this is that the number one in the last Draft does not suffer from any serious knee injury. We should see it again on the floor at 100% when the time comes. So there is no reason to panic if you are a fan of New Orleans, even if this news does not reassure anyone about the risk of injury to the guy. With his exceptional physique, Zion Williamson is an athletic phenomenon that mixes power, agility and explosiveness, but also a player who will put his body to the test with his 130 kilos on the scale. One can legitimately ask questions about its sustainability at the highest level and this absence of several weeks goes in this direction, especially since it had already missed almost the entirety of the Summer League because of a glitch at left knee.

A severe injury has been ruled out for Zion Williamson's right knee, but it is expected to fall short, league sources tell ESPN. Pels are clearly treating injury with an abundance of caution but there is no shortage of confidence on full recovery.

– Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) October 18, 2019

This kind of news just a few days before the start of the regular season, it's always a little shit because we all wanted to see the monster Zion in action in meetings that matter. Because good, it's good to break the barracks in pre-season by finishing at 25 points and 70% shooting, but what gives in "real" games? It will be necessary to wait a little before having a beginning of answer. This will be an opportunity for other rookies in his draft class to get a little ahead of the Rookie of the Year. Ja Morant, R.J. Barrett & Co. is the perfect time to get out of big performances until Zion returns to destroy the hoops. For the Pelicans, he'll have to manage without him for a little while and it necessarily throws a cold on the hype New Orleans. When we take a look at the schedule of the Pels, we realize that their start to the season is not easy with a lot of big meetings on the program. In the first ten games between October 22 and November 11, Alvin Gentry's men will meet teams like Toronto (twice), Houston (twice), Golden State, Denver and Brooklyn. It would have been handy to have Zion in uniform? Now, see if he can come back around mid-November, maybe. For the moment, the duration of its absence remains rather vague but one will have perhaps more details with the next tests that will pass Zion.

Zion Williamson's NBA career will start in the infirmary. Nothing serious, but still several weeks of absence for the product of Duke. It will now monitor the latest news that will fall on it.

Text source: ESPN