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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's legendary run is over. One hundred forty-one straight games with at least twenty points — an NBA record — came to an end Thursday night when SGA finished with seventeen against Denver. The Thunder still won eighty-six to eighty-four, and Gilgeous-Alexander made the call himself, choosing to sit rather than chase the number in a blowout. That's not a failure, that's a player who knows exactly who he is.
Over in Manchester, the question isn't who's managing United — it's whether United can be managed at all. Michael Carrick is the latest to walk into that Old Trafford fog, and Phil McNulty at the BBC puts it plainly: every manager since Sir Alex Ferguson has been swallowed by the same cycle of dysfunction. The club hasn't fixed the root problem, and until it does, the names on the door keep changing but the story stays the same.
Meanwhile in Seattle, the Kraken are winning ugly and winning anyway. Mackie Samoskevich punched in the go-ahead goal with just over five minutes left to lift Seattle past the Utah Mammoth five to three. It's the second straight game the Kraken blew a multi-goal third-period lead and still found a way to close it out. Seven and three and one on the season — they're building something up there.
That's your play-by-play. Sports Desk, back to the booth.
