Zion has played in 45.3 % games in his NBA career

Time to trade him
He could be a complementary piece on a contender
Might as well blow it up
Green will be fired by Thanksgiving

LeBron at 71 games per season over 22 years and Zion at 31 over 3!

somebody put a stat up at some point last year that Jaxson Hayes played more games as pelican than Zion and he'd been gone years. Not sure if that still true, but its astounding

I’ve always been Zion’s biggest supporter and hated the thought of him in another jersey but him missing game 3 of this season when we really needed a win for a bruise really rubbed me the wrong way. Might need to call the Hawks and see if we can get our 1st and other assets back. They would probably be interested in pairing Zion and Trae. Injuries and bad coaching hires marred his time here, also would have been cool if we had AD when Zion got here but it’s nobodies fault he wanted to suck on Lebron.

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I’ve always been Zion’s biggest supporter and hated the thought of him in another jersey but him missing game 3 of this season when we really needed a win for a bruise really rubbed me the wrong way. Might need to call the Hawks and see if we can get our 1st and other assets back.

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I don't understand how he misses this game. It's the 3rd game of the year. A home game after being off two days. Maybe in a month or so after he plays 10-15 straight, I'd give him a day off. But he has to play, unless he's seriously hurt. He'll never get better if he doesn't learn how to manage pain and play through it. Nobody ever gets through a season 100%.

I fully expect him to play 60 games this year at least. We are a .500 team when he plays. Without him, that drops closer to .300. We just can't trade him until there is a market. We have to get value back. That's why Dumars kept him and rolled the dice on him getting some value back. I never expected he'd be here long term, especially with an extension looming..

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somebody put a stat up at some point last year that Jaxson Hayes played more games as pelican than Zion and he'd been gone years. Not sure if that still true, but its astounding

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It’s still true per Basketball Reference. Hayes logged 241 games with the Pelicans, Zion has logged 216. There is a reasonable chance that Zion plays 25 more games to pass him up this year.

Also noteworthy - Zion is 6 games from passing Alexis Ajinca’s 222 games played with the Pelicans.

I really wanted Coby White to be a Pelican. He went 1 pick before Hayes.

Given his lack of availability, the Pels would have been better off picking about 12 different guys at number 1 in 2019. It's crazy to say, but it's true. That's how bad his tenure has been here.