LeBron James returned to the Lakers' lineup for the first time in two weeks. Even Rui Hachimura was back to make LA's starting five whole.
The 30-40 Chicago Bulls, who sit ninth in the Eastern Conference standings but wouldn't even be sniffing the Play-In Tournament in the West, were playing their fifth straight game near the Pacific against a Lakers team fighting for home-court advantage in the playoffs.
Luka Doncic scored 34 points and hit eight threes. Austin Reaves scored 25 to add to LeBron's 17-6-4 stat line.
Even Coby White continued his torrid scoring streak for Chicago with a game-high 36 points, and Matas Buzelis went off for a career-high 31.
Yet none of those were the main headline to come out of the Bulls' 31-point rout of the Lakers.
Josh Giddey makes NBA history with unbelievable stat line
It's been overlooked by most, but Josh Giddey has been one of the best players in the league since the All-Star break. The fourth-year guard is averaging 22.3 points, 10.5 rebounds, 9.1 assists and 2.5 stocks on 53/52/85 shooting splits in his last 11 games.
Over his last 23 contests, Giddey is shooting 51.2 percent from the field and 46.1 percent from three. Something has flipped, and it's impossible not to ignore it with that large of a sample size.
But what he did last night was historic.
Giddey scored 15 points, grabbed 10 rebounds, dished out 17 assists and had eight steals. No one in NBA history has ever posted that stat line, and the Australian floor general was just two steals short of becoming the first player since David Robinson in 1997 to nab the elusive quadruple-double.
The Bulls are two games back from hosting a Play-In Tournament clash but are a near lock to make the postseason. And if it wasn't certain before, Giddey is a lock to grab a massive bag in free agency this summer.