Jeff Teague has ripped right into a current Zion Williamson press convention during which the New Orleans Pelicans star revealed his weight reduction and refined determine.
“This is probably the dumbest press conference I’ve heard in my life,” Teague stated throughout a current look on the Club 520 podcast, as seen within the clip under. “All of this is because of you. You choose to eat, be out of shape, all that. Now, all of a sudden, it’s a contract year probably or looking for an extension. All of a sudden, he’s in shape, and he said they believe in me.
“Fool, they gave you a max deal. They’ve been believing in you. They needed to put a variety of choices in his contract since you did not imagine in you. That’s dumb as hell, that press convention is dumb.”
The former NBA player argued that the press conference was unnecessary because Williamson is just finally doing what he expects from every pro athlete. “You receives a commission rattling close to $40 million a yr to be in form,” he continued. “It’s similar to you do a press convention and say, ‘I really feel the very best I ever felt since school.’ You selected to really feel that manner. You might have been like this for 3 years. I ain’t hating. Get all of the bread you’ll be able to. … C’mon, bro, you had been the one rattling close to 300 kilos.”
Over the past few seasons, Williamson faced criticism for his apparent weight gain, with some suggesting that he was out of shape and wasn’t matching up to the potential he exhibited earlier in his NBA career. During the press conference on Tuesday (September 23), Williamson said that his workout regimen is what got him back on track ahead of his next season with the New Orleans Pelicans.
“From boxing to understanding on the soccer discipline so much. It’s simply completely different, random exercises, and through that time-frame final yr, I actually felt the shift in my physique to the place I used to be trying and going, ‘Yo this feels good. This feels good,'” he said during the press conference, which sparked a whole wave of reactions online. “I have never felt like this since school, highschool, simply the place I can stroll within the gymnasium and I’m like, ‘I really feel good.'”
One of the most immediate responses to the press conference came from Cam’ron on an episode of It Is What It Isin which he compared the turnaround to a crackhead getting clean.
“The ethical of the story is, he cleaned himself up, and he wasn’t that humorous, and the jokes he was telling me, I would not give him a greenback for,” he said. “Shit’s bought wack. They was trash, however hey, he was clear. The jokes fell off, however he was clear. When he excessive, them shits is hilarious. I can not pay for the clear you, however I respect it.”
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