Thirty-seven regular season games into his NBA career, Zion Williamson has mostly defied player comparisons, but in late December, Phoenix head coach Monty Williams likened the 20-year-old to a physically dominant power forward from the 1990s.
“Zion is just an unbelievable force,” the former New Orleans sideline leader said. “I don’t know any other way to describe it. He reminds me so much of Charles Barkley, a guy (with) that size who is dynamic and that strong, able to jump over bigger guys, overpower smaller guys. He seems to just go where he wants to go.”
Although there may be similarities to “Sir Charles,” even the Hall of Fame player-turned-TNT-analyst never produced a stretch as effective and efficient as Williamson’s recent string of performances.