Football and basketball season overlap, so we’ll likely never see an athlete play both football and basketball professionally at the same time; conveniently, the same New Orleans ownership group owns the Pelicans and Saints. When he was younger, people brought up on multiple occasions the prospect of LeBron James sneaking into the NFL as a tight end.
The Saints and Pelicans are starting to get friendly. After the New Orleans Pelicans won the draft lottery, Saints’ head coach Sean Payton even joked that he’d like to see Zion Williamson suit up for his squad.