Even if his answers are prefaced by a long hmmmm, the length of which leads one to believe he’s holding a Shakespearean quip, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has not often seemed stumped by a question.

During the Oklahoma City Thunder's playoff battle against the Dallas Mavericks, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander admitted they needed to "turn that water off" with PJ Washington's scoring and outside shooting.

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,