The Oklahoma City Thunder avoided the upset with a 123-114 win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday. OKC had a monster second half to slowly run away from Utah on the scoreboard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had a career-high 54 points on 17-of-35 shooting and went 17-of-18 at the free-throw line.

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The Thunder could be without several key players. Jalen Williams (hip strain) is questionable. Chet Holmgren (hip fracture) is out. Isaiah Hartenstein (calf strain) is out. Ajay Mitchell (toe surgery) is out. Nikola Topic (torn ACL) is out.

The Suns made a trade with the Utah Jazz that might just be able to move the needle a tad bit in the right direction for Phoenix. The deal won’t necessarily get them anything today. But the Suns likely don’t ever plan on actually making these picks.

The Phoenix Suns have acquired three future first-round picks from the Utah Jazz in exchange for another first-round pick, the teams announced on Tuesday.

It was easy to speculate that the Phoenix Suns had their eye on Jimmy Butler when they completed a trade with the Utah Jazz on Tuesday, but such