Welcome to the Daily Ding.

I'm your host, Andrew Schleck.

With me is my guy Will Gilleri in New Orleans.

Will, what's up?

I'm doing well, man.

I'm just happy to be back.

You know, like I told you before, we started recording.

It's the busy season, man. I actually got to walk in the arena that I touched the floor got to talk to some

people I haven't seen in a couple years man it's lovely I'm just happy to be back yeah I feel the same

I feel the exact same uh your pelicans man they, they don't stay steady, right? They just,

they're always doing stuff. They had an offseason, full of storylines, full of trades,

and they've kind of reformed their team to a degree. You bring in Devante Graham as who he'll be the starting point guard, yes?

Yeah, I think he's going to be.

They really like him and they like what he brings as a ball handler, obviously as a shooter.

So yeah, I think he's probably the favorite right now to be a starting point guard.

Yeah.

And then really the most important thing is you get this bomb dropped on you on Media Day

as Zion Williamson has surgery. What's going through your mind when you hear that? And then

do you have any more info on his progress? Yeah, it was really a shock. And, you know, it was kind of like

one of those like, wait, wait, wait, what? Yeah, surgery? You know, because it, because it was already enough going on,

because we all anticipated going in the media day having a conversation about David Griffin and

Zion Williamson. Is there a beef there? Is there? Are they best friends? You know, did he play the

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