How Biggie Smalls Inspired Zion’s Return to the Court

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🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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It had been 533 days since we last saw Zion Williamson compete in a real live NBA game until this season. The 22-year-old phenom has dealt with a foot injury that kept him out all of last season, and struggled with the perception he was out of shape. But this season (despite a fall on Sunday that left him with a bruised rear end) Zion has looked every bit the sensation he was predicted to be coming out of Duke. It’s a turnaround he credits, in part, to the music of the Notorious B.I.G. We called up ESPN reporter Andrew Lopez to explain how Zion turned things around, whether this latest injury is anything to worry about, and what we might see from him the rest of the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, Andrew Lopez, I have had you on our docket for like a year and a half now.
0:06.2	That's all right.
0:07.4	I'm waiting to revisit the Zion Williams and story with you, waiting to figure out like
0:13.1	what's inside of this giant gift box that always has been threatening to get unwrapped.
0:18.9	And it's taken till, yeah, October of 2022.
0:22.4	So thank you for coming back on the show.
0:24.0	Hey, man, any, anytime in it's been, I mean, heck, it's been, it's been a long time since
0:29.5	we've seen Z play and now that we have, we're like, oh, yeah, this is why this is why
0:34.8	everything was so, so hyped around him.
0:37.0	And it all makes sense again.
0:38.4	Yeah.
0:39.4	And your life as the guy on the Z beat as he just referred to it in specific.
0:44.8	How did you end up with this as your main assignment?
0:48.0	It's, I mean, it's why I got hired.
0:50.0	Like, let's be real.
0:51.0	Oh, you go.
0:52.0	I was, I was working with TimesPakien.
0:54.0	I covered the pills for one year.
0:57.1	We got bought out by our competitor, the advocate.
1:00.2	That was May 2nd, 2019.
1:02.0	I had no idea what I was doing.
1:03.4	None.
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