While the friendlies follow one another a few days before the start of the regular season (October 20), Zion Williamson is missing. Indeed, the star of the New Orleans Pelicans is still not recovered from a right foot operation carried out during the summer. “We don’t have a specific return date”announced Thursday, at a press conference, David Griffin, the franchise’s vice-president of basketball operations.
An announcement that contradicts his remarks of September 20 where he said he was ” optimistic “ for the winger’s return at the start of the season. The situation of the number one in the 2019 draft, already injured several times since the start of his career (4th injury in two and a half seasons), will be “reassessed in regarding two weeks”.