He can handle everything that the Oklahoma City Thunder throws at him. Hes Sideline Reporter Nick Gallo

There is someone who simply can’t stop the Oklahoma City Thunder. At the same time, they send several players – sometimes about half the timetable to try to derail him. They surround him. They talk about him. They put hats on him. They put jackets on him. They cover him with towels. Nothing works. He is Nick Gallo. He is the Thunder Sideline Reporter. And after Thunder’s victories, Gallo’s interviews with the player of the game became a must-see TV simply because no one knows what the team will do in an effort to play him playfully. “I feel like I owe it to them to deliver the best of myself so they can have their moment,” Gallo said. “It’s really a kind of place I try to work. And I think I just got the reps from things that come to me. ‘ Let’s be very clear here: The thunder means no damage. Obviously, they worship Gallo, look at him as part of the team, and love that they can’t break him. They came out with T-shirts with its name and appearance. They made him bark like a dog before they let him report. They find out him as he speaks and dust off his shoulders. During one interview, they piled up so many towels on his head, neck and shoulders that NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander eventually had to intervene. “You have to chew,” Gilgeous-Alexander says to his teammates on the air, middle interview. “I’m sorry, Nick.” There is no need to apologize. Gallo doesn’t care about this. Just about every television game in just about every sport-the ‘runoff’ interview, where a reporter from a sideline will talk to a star player or the player of the game for a few minutes to get their immediate feedback on the air. (Networks almost always work with the team to request a certain player, and the team brings them quickly to the game to the reporter.) When Chet Holmgren came to the Thunder, he didn’t care about the run-off interview when he was tempted, but insisted on having another teammate with him. And now it has just become part of the thunder -Dna. If a man speaks, his teammates will be there to support him and be part of the show. Gallo did not set out a viral sensation. It just happened. “We are talking to the media many times about reporters trying to gain the confidence of the players, and it often feels like a one -way transaction,” Gallo said. “But I really trust them to an incredible extent, and I hope it goes through. These guys are extremely reliable. And the fact that they went out of their way to include me is an incredible honor. I don’t take it for granted. ‘ ___