The Thunder survived January. The same cannot be said of Enes Kanter.
A night of frustration ended in victory for the Thunder, who rode Russell Westbrook's late flurry to a 109-98 victory over a makeshift Dallas team. But Kanter's night ended earlier, in the second quarter, when the valuable sixth man suffered a fractured arm when he slammed it on the back of a chair in frustration.
That means the Thunder almost surely goes into February – and remaining January road games at Cleveland and San Antonio – without the scorer and rebounder who makes the Thunder bench bearable at times.