Brian Windhorst and a team of ESPN's Insiders sort out life and the news from in and around the NBA world, including Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's rise in the league, Spencer Dinwiddie's fit in Dallas, CJ McCollum's All-Star approach and the context of inflated stats.
Last week, after his team won on the road for the first time in more than a month, Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was asked about his patience with the franchise's rebuilding project.
It was a bait question that reporters have asked stars on small-market teams for decades and probably will for decades into the future.