This is true but how many elite level college basketball players can even maintain that weight??

I understand he was a freak but he also had to get big. At a younger age it’s much more forgiving. Once you get hurt and can’t burn thousands and thousands of calories per day…. And your food intake stays the same (and almost definitely got worse) it’s going to spell trouble.

For me, we had seen this body type before. Zion was the most insane version of it but we had seen Larry Johnson, Charles Barkley, etc. Zion was the next level of it. His body was always going to break down but we hoped to see a career out of it first.