New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson left the NBA bubble at the Walt Disney World Resort to deal with an urgent family medical matter. You intend to join the team at a later date. “We fully support Zion’s decision to leave the NBA campus to be with his family,” Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin said in a statement, as reported by ESPN. “Out of respect for the Williamson family, we will have no further comment at this time.”
If Williamson has been gone for seven days or less, he will be quarantined for four days upon his return to the bubble if he has a negative test each day he is out of the bubble. If you have been gone for more than a week, you will remain in quarantine for four days if you have a negative result in the last seven days. Williamson could be quarantined for 10 days if he doesn’t have the required evidence.
Williamson was drafted No. 1 overall by the Pelicans in the 2019 NBA Draft. However, his rookie season got off to a slow start, playing just 19 games after returning to the team in January after meniscus surgery. As the NBA season restart approaches, the Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry said the team will be ready to play without Williamson because they have done so 44 times this season.
“As for the impact on our team, we played 44 games without it,” Gentry said. “We had a difficult stretch there, but we also had a stretch where we won [11] out of 16 without him. “Gentry also said that the Pelicans are a” good team “and that” they will get the boys to step in and play, and the ones that will lift their game up a little bit more. “He then stated when it comes to Williamson: the The team is not concerned about the basketball part for him, what concerns us is the family. “
Williamson, 20, was a standout player for Duke. In his only season with the Blue Devils, Williamson was named ACC Athlete of the Year, ACC Player of the Year, and ACC Rookie of the Year. He led the team to the ACC Tournament Championship, and also led them to the Elite 8 of the NCAA Tournament. He finished the season with 22.6 points, 8.9 rebounds and 2.1 steals per game.
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