{"id":1055905,"date":"2020-02-14T17:25:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T22:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=1055905"},"modified":"2020-02-14T21:35:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T02:35:35","slug":"zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Zion Williamson reveals Michael Jordan was his favorite player to watch, shares best MJ moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pelicans rookie sensation Zion Williamson is preparing to suit up and play during All-Star Weekend, and we predict he&#8217;ll be doing so for a long time to come &#8212; possibly every year he&#8217;s healthy in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson won&#8217;t be playing in the All-Star Game, though, but he will be partaking in the Rising Stars Challenge on Friday night, with fans flocking to hopefully watch him log a few minutes, even though the Pelicans will likely be very careful with their budding superstar.<\/p>\n<p>He did speak with reporters for a brief media session before the game, though, informing them that Bulls legend Michael Jordan was his favorite player to watch growing up. He also shared a few of his favorite MJ moments.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Zion Williamson shares favorite memory of Michael Jordan All-Star Weekend before Rising Stars Game\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E9G977dSSbA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MJ was retired when Williamson was born, for reference, but Zion was one to three years old when he returned to play for the Wizards, although he obviously wasn&#8217;t anywhere near the dominant force he once was earlier in his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pelicans rookie sensation Zion Williamson is preparing to suit up and play during All-Star Weekend, and we predict he&#8217;ll be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1055914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703639074,605037418,685856492],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Zion Williamson reveals Michael Jordan was his favorite player to watch, shares best MJ moments - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zion Williamson reveals Michael Jordan was his favorite player to watch, shares best MJ moments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-14T22:25:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-02-15T02:35:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/usatsi_14042028-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1919\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Zion Williamson reveals Michael Jordan was his favorite player to watch, shares best MJ moments\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-14T22:25:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-02-15T02:35:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/\"},\"wordCount\":191,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/usatsi_14042028-scaled.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"NBA News and Rumors\",\"Pelicans\",\"Promoted\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2020\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/\",\"name\":\"Zion Williamson reveals Michael Jordan was his favorite player to watch, shares best MJ moments - The Sports Daily\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/usatsi_14042028-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-14T22:25:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-02-15T02:35:35+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/usatsi_14042028-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/usatsi_14042028-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1919,\"caption\":\"Feb 14, 2020; Chicago, Illinois, USA; USA forward Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelicans before the NBA Rising Stars basketball game at United Center. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Zion Williamson reveals Michael Jordan was his favorite player to watch, shares best MJ moments\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Sports Daily\",\"description\":\"Sports News | Rumors | Videos | Highlights | Opinion | More\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Sports Daily\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cropped-thesportsdaily_logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cropped-thesportsdaily_logo.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":52,\"caption\":\"The Sports Daily\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportsdailytsd\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\",\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/alan-draper-96x96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/alan-draper-96x96.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Alan Draper\"},\"description\":\"Alan is a vastly experienced sports and gambling writer who is the Chief Editor of The Sports Daily.\",\"sameAs\":[\"\",\"\",\"\",\"\",\"\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/author\/aland\/\",\"jobTitle\":\"Sports Editor\",\"email\":\"\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Zion Williamson reveals Michael Jordan was his favorite player to watch, shares best MJ moments - The Sports Daily","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Zion Williamson reveals Michael Jordan was his favorite player to watch, shares best MJ moments","og_url":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/","og_site_name":"The Sports Daily","article_published_time":"2020-02-14T22:25:02+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-02-15T02:35:35+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1919,"url":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/usatsi_14042028-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Alan Draper","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@sportsdailytsd","twitter_site":"@sportsdailytsd","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Alan Draper","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/"},"author":{"name":"Alan Draper","@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5"},"headline":"Zion Williamson reveals Michael Jordan was his favorite player to watch, shares best MJ moments","datePublished":"2020-02-14T22:25:02+00:00","dateModified":"2020-02-15T02:35:35+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/"},"wordCount":191,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/usatsi_14042028-scaled.jpg","articleSection":["NBA News and Rumors","Pelicans","Promoted"],"inLanguage":"en-US","copyrightYear":"2020","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/","url":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/","name":"Zion Williamson reveals Michael Jordan was his favorite player to watch, shares best MJ moments - The Sports Daily","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/usatsi_14042028-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2020-02-14T22:25:02+00:00","dateModified":"2020-02-15T02:35:35+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/usatsi_14042028-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/usatsi_14042028-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1919,"caption":"Feb 14, 2020; Chicago, Illinois, USA; USA forward Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelicans before the NBA Rising Stars basketball game at United Center. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/zion-williamson-reveals-michael-jordan-was-his-favorite-player-to-watch-shares-best-mj-moments\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Zion Williamson reveals Michael Jordan was his favorite player to watch, shares best MJ moments"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/","name":"The Sports Daily","description":"Sports News | Rumors | Videos | Highlights | Opinion | More","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization","name":"The Sports Daily","url":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cropped-thesportsdaily_logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cropped-thesportsdaily_logo.png","width":300,"height":52,"caption":"The Sports Daily"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportsdailytsd"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5","name":"Alan Draper","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/alan-draper-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/alan-draper-96x96.jpg","caption":"Alan Draper"},"description":"Alan is a vastly experienced sports and gambling writer who is the Chief Editor of The Sports Daily.","sameAs":["","","","",""],"url":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/author\/aland\/","jobTitle":"Sports Editor","email":"","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":""}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}