Austin Rivers on Zion Williamson: New Orleans' food doesn’t help him, everything down there is buttered and greasy
Austin Rivers on Zion Williamson: New Orleans is not a basketball city, it's a football city. Let's be clear, when you get there it's the Saints brother, when you land in right now in 2025, when you land in the New Orleans airport they have five stores with a replay video of them winning the title in 2008, it's still playing. They have banner shirts like they won last year. It's remarkable bro. It's still a thing, it'd be like landing in Boston. (…) Maybe Zion just has to get out of New Orleans, I don't even think the food type helps him either. Everything down there is buttered and greasy and gumbo and goddamn buttered biscuit and lobster and crawfish like get them out of there!
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LeBron James, 25.0
Luka Doncic, 24.2
Shaquille O'Neal, 24.0
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Victor Wembanyama, 22.6
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