Zion Williamson Admits He's Unsure Whether He's Ready to Attend Kobe Bryant's Memorial Service

The New Orleans Pelicans' schedule is plenty busy following the All-Star break. The team is fresh off a road weekend slate (both wins) against the Portland Trail Blazers and Golden State Warriors.

After the Pels' win over the Dubs on Sunday night, they boarded a flight to Los Angeles for a game against the Lakers on Tuesday night. With Kobe Bryant's memorial service scheduled for Monday, players on the Pelicans will have the opportunity to attend, should they choose.

Zion Williamson was asked if he would show up, and the young phenom noted that the emotional atmosphere might be too much for him to reckon with.

Those taking a jab at Williamson for these comments should seriously take a seat. Everybody grieves in their own way, and the rookie out of Duke has the freedom to choose whether or not he's ready to witness such a traumatizing ceremony, even if it is a celebration of Bryant's life.

Williamson's utterances don't mean that he won't be tuned in. Some folks simply can't handle being in the presence of such grief. It's unfair of us to assert what a 19-year-old should or shouldn't do in a time like this.

Zion has taken the NBA by storm, perhaps more than scouts and analysts predicted following his meniscus surgery. The microscope on him is trained even more powerfully on him than previously anticipated.

Let's not take everything he says and blow it up into something it isn't. We're all built differently.