Ding-ding!

How about we can just watch bass?

How about we can just watch bass, people?

Welcome to The Daily Ding. I'm your host Andrew Schlecht.

Tonight, I've got my guy, Wilgillery, on the show. Will, what's up?

Hey, Andrew, man. I appreciate you having me back on. I feel like it's been too long, huh?

It's been too long. The pelicans play too many times on Wednesdays. That's why we can't get you on.

Here. Too much.

Oh, no, man. It's either like a Wednesday or a Sunday, every time. I'm always out of town on weekends.

I'm always playing, watching a game on a Wednesday when you guys are recording.

Yep. Well, tonight was kind of a weird night in the NBA. So let's keep it weird. Let's stay in OKC,

where the Thunderbeat the Nuggets, a 108-94, and a game where the Thunder really had control most of the way.

Schlecht-Gillery's Alexander had his second career triple-double with 27-11-12.

He was so good, but really, the story tonight is not about that.

It's about Mike Malone, who benched his starters for the entire fourth quarter of a game that got

within nine. I kept looking over, just thinking they're going to put him back in. Like, they just

have to put him back in. And every time I'd look over, I would, I saw Yokeuch wearing his hoodie

with his hood firmly on, zipped all the way up, didn't look like he was ready to go back and play a

basketball game. And then after the game, Mike Malone said, I wasn't going to put our starters back

in. They didn't deserve that opportunity. Well, when was the last time you've seen something

as petty? Man, I'm telling you, Mike Malone might be the last guy in the league who consistently

just kills his guys in the media. I feel like this happens like every three weeks where Mike Malone

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