{"id":433091,"date":"2023-04-11T17:55:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T21:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433091"},"modified":"2023-04-11T17:55:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T21:55:37","slug":"williamson-will-come-back-when-he-feels-like-zion","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/williamson-will-come-back-when-he-feels-like-zion\/","title":{"rendered":"Williamson will come back when he feels like Zion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zion Williamson is physically healthy again but is not yet mentally ready to return to his team and be on the court.<\/p>\n<p>The forward of the New Orleans Pelicans said today that when he feels like himself again, he will rejoin the franchise and play.<\/p>\n<p>Zion last played on January 2 and spoke at the press conference before the play-in between New Orleans and Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been frustrating,&#8221; Williamson said. &#8220;Not going to lie to you. It&#8217;s been very frustrating. Not being able to play sucks. But I mean, things have gotten better. Things have gotten a lot better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;For those people that think I just wanna sit on the sideline just to sit over there.. I don&#8217;t know why people think that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zion Williamson spoke today about how tough it&#8217;s been having to sit out with his hamstring injury. His last game was January 2nd. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOX8NOLA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FOX8NOLA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1b5rdLodaJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1b5rdLodaJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Madeline Adams (@MadelineAdamsTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MadelineAdamsTV\/status\/1645891464298151939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Williamson added that he is very close to playing again but must first feel like his old self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zion Williamson is physically healthy again but is not yet mentally ready to return to his team and be on the court. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433092,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,17204,18074],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18565,18739,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Zion said that he is not injured anymore physically.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433091"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433091"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}