That's an insult. I know that's an insult. Any time you finish a demeaning proclamation with "boy", whether or not you are also still technically a boy, you are doing so in an attempt to emasculate your male target in question. That being said, I'm just sure how anyone could justify being insulted by that statement when it's coming from the genetic anomaly that is Zion Williamson. Like, how do you even react to a criticism that's about as clever as saying "water is wet, boy"? I'm all for verbally castrating your opponent, but something that equates to "as an average sized D1 athlete, you are physically incapable of stopping me, a full-size brick shithouse that can jump clear over buildings that aren't as sturdy as my bone structure" isn't exactly as much of a sick burn as it an undisputed truth. Honestly, I hope the 6'7, 285 pound teenager works on his trash talk before next season, because - in a professional league full of pure pettiness - he's going to have to be a little more witty than one-liners that roughly translate to "I'm a biological asterisk and you are not". Anytime you get called a boy by someone who, even if by age only, is also a boy, you reserve the right to protect your manhood. However, I can't help but think the smarter route for Devin Watson to have gone in response would be to insult Zion Williamson's intelligence, as nothing is worthy of the following reaction quite like mocking a college kid's inability to lockdown the bounciest of basketball playing behemoths...
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