Duke Basketball Report · Apr 28, 2019
How Far Has Zion Williamson Penetrated The Public Imagination?
Photo by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images TORONTO, ON - APRIL 27: The difference between Vladimir Guerrero Jr. #27 of the Toronto Blue Jays and is that you won’t see all those empty seats for Williamson’s professional debut.How much has Zion Williamson caught the sporting world’s imagination?
Aside from the obvious football references - a sport he’s arguably more perfectly built for - he’s moved on to baseball where Blue Jay Marcus Stroman compares his rookie teammate Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to the likely #1 NBA Draft pick: “It’s like having Zion Williamson on your team; it’s like a once-in-a-lifetime kind of talent. So just to have the opportunity to play with him, it’s amazing.”