Well this is interesting and unexpected: after signing former Blue Devil Zion Williamson to a rookie max extension, Pelicans exec David Griffith had some interesting things to say.
Specifically, that he and the team had done a really bad job with Williamson in some respects: “We did a really bad job organizationally at getting him in front of people and letting him speak for himself. Because he wasn’t playing basketball, being around the game was hard for him. I didn’t require him to speak to the media and he didn’t want to speak because he wasn’t playing. He wanted that to be for people who are playing.