Mike Francesa on Zion Williamson Injury News
WFAN Daily
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🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Mike reacts to the news of Zion Williamson being out almost two months to start the NBA season.
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| 0:00.0 | Now, one thing, and this is off the beaten path, and I had a lot of arguments with people. |
| 0:06.6 | And I don't like saying, you know, I don't like saying that I told you so, but this was my issue, one of my big issues, |
| 0:14.0 | was that Zion Williamson with that body was going to have a hard time being healthy. |
| 0:19.0 | And he wasn't healthy in college. |
| 0:20.2 | And now to have him open the season out for eight to ten weeks, as I see here, |
| 0:26.1 | after having surgery today on his right knee, anywhere from eight to ten weeks he'll be out to start the season. |
| 0:33.9 | That's the problem here. |
| 0:35.5 | Even before we get into whether he can play a certain position and what his strengths are. |
| 0:39.5 | This is an enormously big bodied player at a very young age. |
| 0:44.7 | And I said playing under the grind in the NBA is so hard for guys with these kind of bodies. |
| 0:51.4 | And look at this. |
| 0:52.2 | He didn't even make it to opening day. |
| 0:55.0 | Eight, he got hurt twice in college last year, |
| 0:57.7 | and he played one year. |
| 0:59.8 | You're not supposed to get hurt when you're 17 or 18 years old. |
| 1:03.2 | That'll come when you have five and six years of wear and tear on your body. |
| 1:07.1 | He now has knee problems that guys have when they're 29 or 30. |
| 1:12.3 | He's getting meniscus deals done. |
| 1:15.1 | You know what meniscus is? |
| 1:16.7 | It's the shock absorber in your knees, these cartilage. |
| 1:20.3 | You have a lateral and medial meniscus in your knee. |
| 1:22.8 | I know because I've had them taken out. |
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