On Wednesday, the Shai area was reverted to the Bay Area.  That doesn’t mean Shai Gilgeous-Alexander didn’t try to stake his ownership claim. He finished with 52 points, just his second 50-point game of his career,

Stephen Curry hit a long 3-pointer with 1:52 left on the way to 21 points as Golden State Warriors beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 116-109.

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,