**OFFICIAL 2019 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD**

[antidope]

Staying a year would do nothing beneficial for him. He's already the consensus number one pick there's no more upward trajectory

 

[lawdog1]

Zion need to go the league...he got too much to lose

There’s no way he doesn’t, IMO. A little more distance from the tourney loss and he’ll get over it.

Except for Tim Duncan, I can’t think of anyone who was projected as the consensus number 1 draft pick in a given year who went back to school. And not all the guys who fit that description were expected to sign 9 figure shoe deals like Zion is. He’s got waaaayyyyy too much money staring him in the face to turn it down....

 

[dacomeup]

Y’all hear Zion might stay with Duke another year

Taking online classes from his Manhattan penthouse?

 

[addict4sneakers]

Zion is still caught up in the loss. D Rose was saying the same thing until he washed his face

 

[lawdog1]

Staying a year would do nothing beneficial for him. He's already the consensus number one pick there's no more upward trajectory

I would hope any adults advising him tell him exactly this, including (and maybe especially) Coach K...

 

[WASHED KING]

Once Zion gets back on that Duke campus for a little while and the love from their tourney run wears off, and those Final exams start creeping up...he will declare.

 

[ballinsam23]

Zion staying would have R.J. staying too. Doubt it happens.

 

[MVP]

Would be hilarious if he stayed, not expecting it to happen though.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

C's have been so weird

Oh..

 

[WASHED KING]

Once they start thinking bout them checks they're out. They already know they not coming back just waiting a little to announce it makes it seems like you had to put a lot of thought into it. Cut the bs.

 

[VARNELL HILL]

I feel like we play this "he might stay" game EVERY year with the top prospect

 

[B Sox]

C's have been so weird

He's always been their most important player. Nothing about that is particularly surprising.

 

[ny mavurs]

That loss HURT but Zion will end up leaving

 

[dman14]

At the thought of zion returning to duke to play student athlete one more year

 

[jpzx]

How much does it matter that The Durant Company’s headquarters are in New York?

 

[Peep Game]

At the thought of zion returning to duke to play student athlete one more year

Dude didn’t burst through his shoes to give it another go for Duke he’s gone

 

[KHUFU]

Well, ever since that white chick posted the feed on twitter with Zion trying to get in those drawers, I realized that Zion might not be so smart. Also, there is the curse of Coach K. Nobody who comes out of that program, comes out right and ready.

 

[VARNELL HILL]

How much does it matter that The Durant Company’s headquarters are in New York?

The company was literally always headquartered in New York. They just moved to a new office. But obviously none of these things matter today

 

[jumpman91023]

Dude didn’t burst through his shoes to give it another go for Duke he’s gone

He's in the " I love my teammates, I thought we were winning it all since last summer phase" he'll snap out of that soon and declare.

 

[B Sox]

Also, there is the curse of Coach K. Nobody who comes our of that program, comes out right and ready.

Bagley? Tatum? Kyrie?

 

[nick.]

The Zion staying another year at Duke thing was an April fools joke on PTI

 

[Quincy McCall]

So honest

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

He's always been their most important player. Nothing about that is particularly surprising.

So they're basically the Hawks..?

 

[VARNELL HILL]

The Zion staying another year at Duke thing was an April fools joke on PTI

I was wondering where the hell this was coming from

I watched his post game interview and he literally stopped short of declaring

He said something to the effect of "obviously there's a high chance I'm leaving but I'm not saying it officially until I talk with my parents".

 

[B Sox]

So they're basically the Hawks..?

Does important mean the same thing as best to you?