Oklahoma City Blue Head Coach Mark Daigneault had no doubt in his mind. There was a crack, a sliver of an opportunity. He knew that the point guard who had spent a season in the G-League and another overseas would throw his best punch.
Through a confluence of events at the beginning of the 2016-17 season, rookie point guard Semaj Christon found himself staring down the barrel as a backup point guard behind the NBA’s 2017 MVP, on a team with playoff aspirations. A year after shipping off to Italy to compete for Consultinvest Pisaro and two seasons after putting in the sweat equity with the OKC Blue, Christon was suddenly, surprisingly, getting a chance to make a claim at being in the rotation every night.