Shannon Sharpe Totally Annihilates Zion Williamson After The Devastating Development Comes Out

Shannon Sharpe Totally Annihilates Zion Williamson After The Devastating Development Comes Out

Hey what’s up everybody this is Charles Sanson welcome you guys to another episode of The Dreamers Pro show where we cover everything from Sports Hot Topics classic debates entertainment and we give you guys a fresh perspective on things and I we see man today we have a

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Podcast that we have pinned in the comment section below anyway let me get into this topic uh here this is a topic that I wanted to get to actually earlier but I had something personal to take care of but anyway here we are we’re talking about it about a day or so ago

We got the news that um Zion Williamson’s contract would no longer be guaranteed now we got this from various sources uh but one of the sources that I want to quickly read from is from SI Sports Illustrated has the following headline says why Zion Williams’s contract is no longer guaranteed for

Final three years per report goes on new and unusual details of Pelican star Zion Williams a contract paint a picture of potentially of of a potentially frame relationship between the once highly touted rook and and New Orleans adid resurfacing concerns of a Williamson’s persistent availability issues the

Pelicans could be at their ropes end with the two-time allstar as they have opted to protect themselves if Williams misses more time in the future Williams’s 5-year extension signed in July 2022 the last three years of the deal are no longer guaranteed according to a recent report by the athletic the

Former number one overall pick sat out more uh more than 22 games last season which triggered a clause that turns his salary from guaranteed to non-guaranteed for the 2025 2026 season all the way up to the 28 Seasons should Williamson also missed a significant number of games

This season he could he could take a financial hit in the 2024 2025 season as well Williams extension reportedly includes ways for him to earn back the loss guarantees by hitting specific benchmarks at the same time Williamson could lose more money if he doesn’t pass regular checks of his weight and body f

For example one clause in his contract dictate dictates that the sum of Williamson’s weight and body fat percentage must be lower than 295 the Pelicans and Williams agent declined to comment on contract matters uh you know to the athletic and then it continues on Williamson uh currently in

His first year of his 5year $197 million extension has found himself back in the spotlight due to reemerging questions over his Fitness level ESPN Stephen A Smith and TNT Shaquille O’Neal were a few of many critics to take shots at Williams health and conditioning this past month following the Pelicans 44o

Loss at a Lakers in the inseason tournament semi-finals on December uh 7 the 23y old Williams has has only played 137 games in the last five seasons and has missed the entire 2022 uh campaign due to a foot injury he has managed to stay healthy so far this season

Averaging 22 points 5.8 rebounds and 4.7 assists in in 23 uh games and the article goes on to say a few other things there so that’s what uh the article has said there to a bunch of other sources you guys can go check it including the athletic if you want more

Detailed information on this so what happened today I came across a clip from ESPN First Take that featured a panel of Molly Kum uh uh Shannon sharp and Kendrick Perkins and they brought up this very issue to get a sense of or really for for for the audience to get a

Sense of what they thought about the turn of events uh was Zion Williamson and this is disturbing disturbing development surrounding uh his contract so what we want to do is want to play exactly what Shannon sharp and Kendrick Perkins had to say about you know this

Story and then we’re going to come back and give you guys our thoughts and opinions take a listen on what they had to say here the athletic reviewed Zion’s contract which shows that the final three years of his contract starting with the 2025 26 Season are no longer

Guaranteed after he played in only 29 games last season now Zion has only played in 40% of the Pelicans gam since they drafted him first overall in 2019 that includes missing the entire 2021 22 season when New Orleans made the playoffs if Williamson misses significant time this season it could

Cut into his guaranteed salary for the 2024 25 season the contract also has ways for Williamson to earn back the guarantees by playing in enough games and as of you guys have heard hitting some specific weighin checkpoints Shannon let’s start with you what does this all mean for Zion’s

Future Zion has going have to make some tough decisions does he really want to play basketball because for the longest time I thought I said what Zan really love you don’t love something when you when if you Lo if he loved the game of basketball he would get his weight under

Control he would take training serious there’s no possible way you can say you love something and then go out and do the things that’s totally opposite of what you’re saying I mean for him he had to play he had to miss fewer than 23 games in order to avoid the last three

Years of his contract being voided I mean non- guaranteed he missed 53 games and now they got these just think about this perk the mere fact that I’ve never had a weight Clause I’ve never had any kind of clause in my contract and for

Him to put this and I told him when he was at Duke normally big kids grow up to be big adults oh Shad you don’t know he gonna get in shape I said do you understand college kids don’t have money if you find a kid that’s overweight in

College with no money what the hell you think going to happen if you give him a 100 or 200 million he ain’t eating Pop-Tarts he ain’t eating Cheetos he eating 10 course meals it’s it’s actually it’s embarrassing it’s really embarrassing because this man have all the assets to

Get a personal chef to have the best trainers but you can get all that the personal chef the personal trainer what about personal accountability perk that’s what this is this ain’t about no Chef this ain’t about no trainer this ain’t about the New Orleans Pelicans this is about Zion Williamson lacking

Personal accountability until he sees it within himself to see what he’s doing to his NBA future nothing’s going to change and nothing matters I’mma take it a step further huh I’m I’mma piggy back off of you but I’mma take it a step further Zion Williamson don’t love the game of

Basketball he don’t love it he love what the game of basketball has to offer so you heard what sharp and Kendrick Perkins had to say here are my thoughts first of all um this is an unprecedented story and if you listen carefully to the audio you would hear Shane and sharp say

In his entire professional career he has never heard of anything like this which means that it’s unprecedented there’s no precedent anywhere for something like this which means that um it’s a pretty serious situation for them to put in these particular Clauses in Zion williams’ contract now to be fair shanon

Sharp has been one of these people and he said it in the audio it’s always questioned whether or not Zion would be able to maintain uh his weight and play within a certain uh play within a certain threshold um a lot of people were criticizing him because of how he

Looked uh in that playing Tournament game of course Stephen A Smith was making fun of his belly saying that his belly was uh jiggling and all of that um I didn’t see any need to go that far because well uh I thought it was unnecessary you can call a guy fat you

Can call him out of shape and now talk about his belly jiggling and all of that let’s just be for real you’re making fun of the guy let’s just be for real I didn’t think that was necessary but some some people do which is their prerogative is their right to say what

They want to say um in the case of Zion Williamson listen as someone that has had challenges with losing weight first of all it’s very difficult uh I’ve been fat I’ve been slim I’ve been chubby whatever it’s very very difficult but it really all boils down to to a few things

Number one the principal thing uh is your discipline right that’s the principal thing and by discipline we’re talking about one fundamental thing here which I personally believe and I think a lot of people that are probably into fitness who have gone through a fitness journey watch ing this particular show

Will concur with me uh 100% or at a lot I think a good amount for people like me 70 70 75% of the battle is what you eat if you like you can run on a tread for two hours every single day if you eat the wrong thing you’re not going to see

The results that you want to get and it it’s not as simple as oh just calories in calories out I understand but the type of things that you put in your body going to is going to dictate the amount of energy you have to do certain things

So number one it starts off with the mental discipline can I do this for a sustained period of time now in the case of a Zion Williams you’re asking him to be in shape for God knows how long year in year out and maybe you may have a

Summer maybe a month month and a half depending on how far you going in a postseason you know to just slack off or whatever it is now here’s the challenge challenge with that you do that um you’re not going to have to work back to get where you are give you guys a

Perfect example when I was in college I used to be in tip toop shape Marco will tell you I was running then I go on vacation visit family or whatever it is you’re wa for a month and a half two months number one you don’t have access

To the same uh workout facilities you’re in a totally different environment College you’re on the move you’re on the go whereas on holiday you’re on holiday uh you know college you don’t have foods that you would have in college because you’re in college so your mama ain’t

There cooking for you and you don’t have the access to the fridge in college you got to figure get it how you get it how you live right so I always had the situation where over those periods I would gain weight I probably gain I don’t know 10 pounds or whatever 10 some

Cases 15 pounds but when I get back I now got to put in the work to lose and it usually takes me about a month month and a half to really get back in tip toop shape in the case of Zion Williamson however he’s a professional athlete so this is actually your job

That wasn’t my job I just did that for you know my health and how I want it to look but in this particular case it’s your job right and if it’s your job uh and you’re earning this this volume of money then you need to do everything

Within your power to ensure that you’re putting yourself in the proper environment proper proper mental state to be able to go out there and yield those results if you know anything about Zion’s personal life over the last summer I mean it was an absolute disaster total chaos and when you have

That type of chaos going on with the situation with that only fans model and all that other crazy stuff it creates a a difficult environment for you to be in a proper mental space to then go out there and focus on that thing because you can’t be living a chaotic life and

Then say I’m going to be living a healthy life as well no it’s very very hard unless you someone that has a very quick metabolism you can just eat anything and lose weight so to me I think as a Nuance situation I think I think that that um this is probably a

Wakeup call for Zion and hopefully he he designs um a life for himself that will allow him to excel not just from a health standpoint but from a mental standpoint not health I’m just talking about physically I’m talking about mentally right you have to create the environment if you have the resources to

Do it then you do it then you absolutely do it you know if it means deleting your phone and getting a no phone and starting it whatever you got to do you do it right because this is pretty pretty serious uh and it’s your future

Now in this case you know Zion got a big shoe contract so it’s not like as if Zion Williamson is going to be poor in the future he’s made he’s made all his money uh but nevertheless uh it’s a pretty pretty disturbing story and I hope that he gets it together right

Because Zion is a very young guy and I’m not rooting for a young guy like this to be you know going through challenges and stuff like that I get no kick out of that right so hopefully he gets it together and uh and he gets his career

Back on track but he’s a very young guy and he’s dealing with a lot of drama and hopefully he gets back on track so these are my thoughts what I want to know from you guys number one what do you think about the report number two what do you

Think about what Kendrick Perkinson and Shannon sharp had to say number three do you think that Zion can ultimately figure it out in the future and get back on track or do you think that Hey listen man that ship is sale whatever you guys think please leave your thoughts and

Comments in the comment section we catch you guys on the next show peace

Shannon Sharpe Totally Annihilates Zion Williamson After The Devastating Development Comes Out.

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