Jeff Teague has ripped into a recent Zion Williamson press conference in which the New Orleans Pelicans star revealed his weight loss and refined figure.
"This is probably the dumbest press conference I've heard in my life," Teague said during a recent appearance on the Club 520 podcast, as seen in the clip below. "All of this is because of you. You chose to eat, be out of shape, all that. Now, all of a sudden, it's a contract year probably or looking for an extension. All of a sudden, he's in shape, and he said they believe in me.
"Fool, they gave you a max deal. They've been believing in you. They had to put a lot of options in his contract because you didn't believe in you. That's dumb as hell, that press conference is dumb."
The former NBA player argued that the press conference was unnecessary because Williamson is just finally doing what he expects from every pro athlete. "You get paid damn near $40 million a year to be in shape," he continued. "It's just like you do a press conference and say, 'I feel the best I ever felt since college.' You chose to feel that way. You could have been like this for three years. I ain't hating. Get all the bread you can... C'mon, bro, you were the one damn near 300 pounds."
Over the past few seasons, Williamson faced criticism for his apparent weight gain, with some suggesting that he was out of shape and wasn't matching up to the potential he exhibited earlier in his NBA career. During the press conference on Tuesday (September 23), Williamson said that his workout regimen is what got him back on track ahead of his next season with the New Orleans Pelicans.
"From boxing to working out on the football field a lot. It's just different, random workouts, and during that time frame last year, I really felt the shift in my body to where I was looking and going, ‘Yo this feels good. This feels good,'" he said during the press conference, which sparked a whole wave of reactions online. "I haven't felt like this since college, high school, just where I can walk in the gym and I'm like, ‘I feel good.'"
One of the most immediate responses to the press conference came from Cam'ron on an episode of It Is What It Is, in which he compared the turnaround to a crackhead getting clean.
"The moral of the story is, he cleaned himself up, and he wasn't that funny, and the jokes he was telling me, I wouldn't give him a dollar for," he said. "Shit's got wack. They was trash, but hey, he was clean. The jokes fell off, but he was clean. When he high, them shits is hilarious. I can't pay for the clean you, but I respect it."
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