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Zion Williamson's Year at Duke Will Stand Apart From His Legendary Past and Limitless Future

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This story appears in the March 11, 2019, issue of Sports Illustrated. For more great storytelling and in-depth analysis, subscribe to the magazine—and get up to 94% off the cover price. Click here for more.

Four months. That’s all the time Zion Williamson needed to break college basketball—a mere 26 games, exactly 732 minutes on the floor. What, you’re not buying it based on the 360-degree dunks and the nimble coast-to-coast drives and the 2.