After the question was asked, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander couldn't help himself. He cracked a smile and burst into laughter when Mark Daigneault's name was mentioned at the end of his MVP press conference.

When Shai Gilgeous-Alexander wins, he makes sure his teammates shares in his victory, too.

When the Houston Rockets traded Chris Paul got traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Russell Westbrook in the summer of 2019, it appeared to be part of a massive teardown effort in OKC. They already flipped Paul George to the Clippers for a young point guard in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and a boatload of picks six days prior,