Without further ado, here are our midseason award winners ... The Midseason MVP is ... Kevin O'Connor: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who is having the best season on one of the most dominant teams in recent memory.

This year's crop of NBA rookies has been underwhelming by traditional standards. There's no bonafide star in the bunch, yet, though those few weeks of Jared McCain were a complete delight before he went down with a season-ending injury.

This stretch of January around Martin Luther King Jr. Day is usually peak evaluation time in the NBA front-office world. It’s one of the milestone points where teams will have full-staff pow-wows and talk things out,