{"id":596734,"date":"2026-02-11T13:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/596734\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T13:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:39:12","slug":"pelicans-forward-credits-trainer-work-for-improved-health-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/596734\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans forward credits trainer work for improved health this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) &#8211; Zion Williamson is well on his way to earning a full salary for future seasons. All he has to do is play in a total of 61 games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Because of his current 29-game streak, he\u2019s more than halfway to a big payday. Williamson has managed to stay healthy, which has led to good play from him this season, averaging 21 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He credits his good health to the work he\u2019s been doing off the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cA lot of the extra work I\u2019ve been doing with my trainer, Kris, in the Pels as well,\u201d Williamson said. \u201cI think that extra work and just the focus on my body has done a lot and allowed me to play as many games consecutively. But at the same time, I got to give respect to the team for trusting me to play that amount of minutes and allowing my minutes to still grow. So I\u2019ve been real happy about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Pelicans take on the Miami Heat tonight at 7 o\u2019clock. This is the final game before next weekend\u2019s All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/02\/11\/zion-williamson-quiety-having-healthy-productive-season-with-pelicans\/mailto:WVUE-digitalcontent@gray.tv\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a> to report it. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Subscribe to the Fox 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3ijTadOgOLbGWGC1rRy9lA?sub_confirmation=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WVUE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) &#8211; Zion Williamson is well on his way to earning a full salary for future&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,79665,6,79666,79667],"class_list":{"0":"post-596734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-james-willett","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-treasurer-john-fleming","12":"tag-unclaimed-property-check"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116052280752267721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}