{"id":697088,"date":"2019-01-06T01:05:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T06:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=697088"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:40:38","slug":"brownlow-having-zion-williamson-sure-beats-the-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=697088","title":{"rendered":"Brownlow: Having Zion Williamson sure beats the alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/brownlow-having-zion-williamson-sure-beats-the-alternative\/18105865\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/2018\/12\/30\/18094688\/media_29ea1a5e10694285a82414b6d2bb1397-DMID1-5hdowitf8-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"YE\u2014Emerging_Stars_07753\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As No. 1 Duke opens ACC play, both the Blue Devils and Clemson found out that having a Zion Williamson sure beats not having a Zion Williamson. Brad Brownell, who very nearly landed him at Clemson, could only watch helplessly as Zion became the player he always knew that he was. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/brownlow-having-zion-williamson-sure-beats-the-alternative\/18105865\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/brownlow-having-zion-williamson-sure-beats-the-alternative\/18105865\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Brownlow: Having Zion Williamson sure beats the alternative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As No. 1 Duke opens ACC play, both the Blue Devils and Clemson found out that having a Zion Williamson sure beats not having a Zion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920958,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697088\/revisions\/1920958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}