Thanks to Zion, I Know I Can Fly

Yes, the rookie phenom is able to hurdle any obstacle others put in his way

Andrew Ricketts
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6 min readJan 23, 2020

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Zion Williamson on January 26, 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Photo: Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images

II grew up in Brooklyn in the ’90s when the biggest star was a fat, Black Jamaican. Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace got all the girls by flaunting his ugly cool. He was smooth and wore thousand-dollar sweaters, so that made his claim more convincing. It must be, because…

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Andrew Ricketts
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I’m a Caribbean and American writer from New York. My stories are about coming-of-age, learning how to relate, and family. It’s a living, breathing memoir.