On Wednesday, the Thunder beat the Utah Jazz 123-114 to move to 36-7. Of course, the star of the night was Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who dropped a career-high 54 points in the victory. His big night marked the first time a Thunder player has hit the 50-point threshold since Russell Westbrook in 2017.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored a career-high 54 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Utah Jazz 123-114.

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,