The same game unfolded after every Thunder practice last season.
Danilo Gallinari and a group that usually included Mike Muscala, Dennis Schröder and Abdel Nader would compete in an intense variation of around the world. The objective was five makes at five spots around the 3-point arc, and once finished, the eventual winner would have to go around the arc with one additional make from each spot.
Mark Daigneault, then a Thunder assistant, was always stationed at the hoop where the game was played. Daigneault recalled one of Gallinari’s epic performances.
“One day he didn’t think they were playing,” Daigneault said, “and he walked off the court and he took his shoes off and then they like yelled at him: ‘Gallo, you’re not playing today?