Is This The Next Lebron?
The NBA Finals are upon us but the Internet is still buzzing about this 16 year old man child out of South Carolina. He throws down savage man dunks in the games like he is a grown ass professional basketball player in a showcase dunk contest. Windmill 360s, two handed 360s, in your face two hand slams and much more. He is only a junior in high school and Drake is wearing his jersey, follows him on Instagram, and has been texting with him. Which is honestly really smart on Drake's part because it helps him stay relevant with the younger kids coming up.
This kid's name is the stuff of legend. ZION WILLIAMSON
Can he have a more marketable name? He is 6'7" 230 lb. Somehow he is young for his grade too because it is the end of the school year and he is only 16 years old still. He doesn't turn 17 until mid summer. Going into his senior year of high school and he has already went on a lot of visits to the different universities he is looking to play for. Lebron was the last player to come straight out of high school directly to the NBA. They changed the rules to where a player must spend one year in college which I think is dumb but that is besides the point.
Zion is being compared to Lebron because of the flashy and powerful dunks and his all around game. He can do more than dunk. I have assessed his game and he can drive with the ball with either hand. He has the ability to knock down his shots from beyond the 3 point line. He can finish well in traffic and has a special touch at the hoop if he isn't able to throw down a dunk. His defense is also solid and he regularly gets his head above the rim and spikes other players shots reminding them to not be attempting to score while he is around.
Overall it will be interesting how well this kid progresses over the next year. There are a lot of great ball players coming up through the high school ranks and they seem to just keep getting better and better as the years go on. I attribute this to the Internet. Now everyone is able to watch other guy's mix tapes on YouTube and then that is the bench mark. They start expecting that they need to play that well and take their game up a notch.
Good luck to Zion and it seems like he has a pretty level head on his shoulders considering the fact that he is growing in popularity fast.
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Beast Mode at 16 years old? Good grief man, this kid is killing it!!
Yeah no joke. The kid is playing on the MOON!
Those other kids looked like...well...they looked like real kids. haha!!
Hahahhaha, Yeah Zion is sort of a super hero compared to the humans.
most definitely. Can he play baseball too? Is this the younger generation Bo? LOL
It is a good question. I'm not sure if he plays other sports.
Yeah this is pretty wild
That kid is a freak.
I know, it is ridiculous how good some of these kids are. Lebron was skinnier when he was at that age. That kid is already filled out. He is already ready for top notch D1 competition. It makes me feel like I don't have hops..... but hey....that kids is 7 inches taller than me.
I'd need some jump soles or something lol. I've never had hops. Used to have speed though but I'm 31 that shit is fading. I played football and ran a 4.47. No hands, played defense. 100% hustle/tryhard.
I had jump soles and I did Air Alert II! I wasn't very fast though.
Do you feel like it worked? I could grab the rim but was like 2 inches short of a real dunk.
Air Alert II worked better than the jump soles I felt. I gained 10 inches on my vertical. No joke. Went from 22 inch to 32 inch vert.
I was watching this kid the other day and I gotta say hes going to be one savage player...
He is pretty unreal and if it was 20 years ago and someone told me about the stuff he was doing I wouldn't believe it. Then to watch it! WOW
Yeah...but how about that little white guard who's dishing him those sweet passes? He's the next John Stockton!
I was thinking the same thing. He looked like he was having a blast dishing to him. How about the set-up off the backboard, Looked like a break away, they were seriously running. that was crazy!!
Hahahh, you noticed too! He has a couple solid teammates!
His teammates will talk about this forever!! They are having just as much fun as he is, guaranteed.
For sure! He is making everyone else better on the team and they won the state championship!
kids' good ain't he?
Well,he's good, but he's no Zion Willia....oh wait, ya he is. haha!
no idea really...I don't follow sportz..but he was purty impressive.
I bet the girlz dig it.
Ok Oldtimer, keep up ;) this IS Zion Williamson... haha!! And no doubt he has no trouble finding a date to the dance, so to speak.
that's basketball..right?
not golf..golf uses a ball.
or volleyball?
or feetsball?
so MANY balls..
haha! I like me some feetsball!!
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WOW! He is amazing, and only a kid.