Zion Williamson has now played two games since the New Orleans Pelicans decided he was ready to start his NBA career. The first was against San Antonio where he started quiet before running off a personal streak of 17 straight points in the fourth quarter.
Against Denver on Friday night Williamson had 15 points, six rebounds and one block.
About that...
At Duke we got used to seeing him do inexplicable, superhuman things and in his short return, we hadn’t yet seen him do that.
Until that block.
Williamson saw former Florida State star Malik Beasley take Duke’s all-time leading scorer JJ Redick down the lane and went to meet him.