Naz Reid benched five games into first season with Hornets

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHornets forward Naz Reid was benched for the entire second half of a loss to Detroit because, the coach said, he didn't meet the team's standard, the New York Post reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWhich standard?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe coach didn't say.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt was his fifth game with the team, and he'd averaged nineteen and a half points and nine and a half rebounds in the first four.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo he met a standard four times running, and on the fifth they moved it.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSomebody wasn't told, and it was either him or the building.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd Charlotte led fifty-one to forty-four at halftime. They benched him while they were winning. They lost ninety-seven to eighty-nine.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWinning. I've been audited for less.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSports Illustrated confirmed he was available to play. He just sat there for twenty-seven minutes.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe was part of the trade that sent LaMelo Ball to Minnesota, by the way.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMy theory is the standard is written on a whiteboard in the Hornets' locker room, and somebody erased it at halftime and forgot to write it back.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMine is the standard was a wrong number on a clipboard. Either way, a man scored his points, sat down, and got a speech.