{"id":901852,"date":"2019-05-14T17:17:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T22:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=901852"},"modified":"2019-05-19T23:08:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T04:08:25","slug":"nba-draft-lottery-zion-williamson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/nba-draft-lottery-zion-williamson\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 NBA Draft Lottery: The Zion Williamson Legend Begins Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, DC \u2014<\/strong> And just like that, we have arrived to the 2019 NBA Draft Lottery or what has now unofficially become the Zion Williamson sweepstakes.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old freshman phenom who became only the third ever freshman to win the Naismith&#8217;s Men&#8217;s Player of the Year award, averaged 22.6 points, 8.9 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.8 blocks, 2.1 steals, 68.0 field-goal percentage, 33.8 percent 3-point shooting and 64.0 percent free throw shooting in 30.0 minutes per game during his short but electric college career.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s lottery will determine his future and the future outlook of some of the NBA&#8217;s worst franchises this past season.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in tonight at 8:30 pm ET, ESPN will be broadcasting the lottery live from Chicago, IL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/joeglo\/albums\/72157705103363612\">NCAA: Duke vs. Virginia Tech Sweet 16 (3\/29\/2019)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 And just like that, we have arrived to the 2019 NBA Draft Lottery or what has now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":901856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678545579,703639074,610258542],"tags":[605048022,678775518,1985,6527,678775519,1373,182759,67,669469500],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - 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