{"id":739355,"date":"2026-05-20T14:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/739355\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:21:21","slug":"pelicans-keeping-zion-williamson-aol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/739355\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans keeping Zion Williamson? &#8211; AOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:USA TODAY;\" href=\"https:\/\/uw-media.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"USA TODAY\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"174\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-07\/506fdd20-ee43-11eb-8f33-8a4102cf7edb.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Wed, May 20, 2026 at 1:15 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"686\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_usatoday_us_articles_590\/fbe05585716770fc9c8bf0cf49d24b64.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pelicans keeping Zion Williamson?<\/p>\n<p>Chris Mannix: &#8220;The big question moving forward in New Orleans now is will Zion Williamson be part of this next iteration of Pelicans teams? <a data-ylk=\"slk:From what I was told during this interview process with coaches, the plan is to hold on to Zion, to keep him in New Orleans.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GKxI_WN3hww&amp;t=60s\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">From what I was told during this interview process with coaches, the plan is to hold on to Zion, to keep him in New Orleans.<\/a> He&#8217;s got two full years left on his contract. And maybe one of the silver linings in a disappointing 25-26 season was Zion was relatively healthy. He played 62 games, averaged right around 21 points per game, shot a good percentage from the floor. That&#8217;s the second highest most number of games that Zion has played in his career. So getting him back, getting him healthy is a great sign for the Pelicans. And as of right now, the plan is to hold on to Zion and continue to build him out as a coach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Hoops Hype: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Pelicans keeping Zion Williamson?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopshype.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/rumors\/2026\/05\/20\/pelicans-keeping-zion-williamson\/90174830007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Pelicans keeping Zion Williamson?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wed, May 20, 2026 at 1:15 PM UTC Pelicans keeping Zion Williamson? Chris Mannix: &#8220;The big question moving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,12632,48,6,47,76,3883,675,4439,814],"class_list":["post-739355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando-magic","tag-basketball","tag-chris-mannix","tag-magic","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlandomagic","tag-pelicans","tag-the-pelicans","tag-zion-williamson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116607351985155878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739355","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=739355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}