This stretch of January around Martin Luther King Jr. Day is usually peak evaluation time in the NBA front-office world. It’s one of the milestone points where teams will have full-staff pow-wows and talk things out,

Trying to close out a contest, the Oklahoma City Thunder's 123-114 win over the Utah Jazz went from worrying about a possible upset to the OKC crowd secretly happy it was a back-and-forth affair in the fourth quarter to see Shai Gilgeous-Alexander chase history.

On the door step of being named an NBA All-Star Starter for the second time in his career, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander pulled off another milestone feat during the