Zion Williamson makes 26.09 percent more than in 2021/22. He’s the 110th best-paid NBA player this year. He earns an annual average salary of $13,534,817.
He is an American professional basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association. He plays the power-forward position.
Zion was born on July 6, 2000, in Salisbury, North Carolina, United States.
He attended Spartanburg Day School, a small K–12 private school in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where he played basketball for the Griffins.
Zion was selected by the Pelicans with the first overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2020. In 2021, he became the 4th youngest NBA player to be selected to an All-Star game.
He set the single-game school scoring record for freshmen in January 2019, claimed ACC Rookie of the Week accolades five times, earned AP Player of the Year, Sporting News College Player of the Year recognition, and won the Wayman Tisdale Award.
On July 6, 2022, Williamson signed a 5-year rookie extension with the New Orleans Pelicans.