Things are going great for Kevin Durant, who became the eighth player in NBA history to reach 31,000 career points while helping the Houston Rockets to a 117-98 win over the Phoenix Suns.

Rick Carlisle is going to get his 1,000th career win as a coach.

All eight teams left in the running for the NBA Cup are now playing for a shot at going to Las Vegas for the tournament semifinals, along with a chance of picking up more than $500,000 per player as a reward for claiming the title.

Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg and Charlotte Hornets guard Kon Knueppel are making some NBA history as rookies.

A big reason for that is the Mavericks' rookie tandem of Cooper Flagg and Ryan Nembhard. They ended up on the team in different ways, as the Mavs lucked into the first overall pick to select Flagg, while Nembhard somehow slipped out of the draft and they picked him up on a two-way contract soon afterwards. And they've been dynamite as of late.

All eight teams left in the running for the NBA Cup are now playing for a shot at going to Las Vegas for the tournament semifinals, along with a chance of picking up more than $500,000 per player as a reward for claiming the title.

Kevin Durant notched another milestone on Friday night during Houston's dominant victory over Phoenix, becoming just the eighth player in NBA history to join the exclusive 31,000-point club.

To take it one step further, Nembhard joined Michael Finley and Stephon Marbury as the only rookies in NBA history to have a game of 28 points, 10 assists, and no turnovers since turnovers were tracked as a stat in the 1977-78 season.