{"id":439587,"date":"2023-07-12T04:12:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T08:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439587"},"modified":"2023-07-12T04:12:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T08:12:29","slug":"zion-williamson-demands-more-from-himself","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/zion-williamson-demands-more-from-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Zion Williamson demands more from himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Pelicans player Zion Williamson understands his battle to be healthy takes much discipline, but he claims he will do better in the future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Zion Williamson opens up about the struggles of staying in shape so far in his career.<\/p>\n<p>LINK TO FULL STORY: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YH3oug2IRy\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/YH3oug2IRy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0aN1oeVDag\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0aN1oeVDag<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ComplexSports\/status\/1678814372133580800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The player shared in a podcast about his struggles, and because of them, he played only 114 regular-campaign matches in 4 seasons. The host asked him about eating healthy food to be in shape.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not easy,&#8221; Zion admitted. &#8220;I&#8217;m young, have all the money in the world &#8212; well, it feels like I can buy anything. It&#8217;s a struggle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m at that point now because of certain things; I\u2019m trying to get wiser each day. I don&#8217;t want to say older because they get defensive, but I&#8217;m giving people around me wisdom. I need to start from somewhere and improve each day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williamson also added that some of his problems are because he felt like he could do anything when he was young.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cIf we get 70 games of Zion Williamson, he is going to be one of the 10 best players in the league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Wright<\/p>\n<p>Agree? \ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FTFonFS1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FTFonFS1<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AJkKNWLR1p\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AJkKNWLR1p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPointsApp\/status\/1678855622391914496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Pelicans player Zion Williamson understands his battle to be healthy takes much discipline, but he claims he will do better in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":439588,"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":[],"acf":{"video":["video"],"announce":"The player knows that he can do a lot better."},"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\/439587"}],"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=439587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439587"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439587"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}