{"id":232640,"date":"2025-10-22T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/232640\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:21:07","slug":"shai-gilgeous-alexander-lifts-okc-over-houston-curry-and-warriors-edge-lakers-despite-luka-doncics-brilliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/232640\/","title":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander lifts OKC over Houston, Curry and Warriors edge Lakers despite Luka Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s brilliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston was led by Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn, who continued his strong year after helping Turkiye to a silver medal at EuroBasket this summer. The 22-year-old centre posted a dominant line of 39 points, 11 rebounds, and seven assists on an efficient 50 per cent shooting from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Four-time Olympic gold medallist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/kevin-durant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Durant<\/a>, making his Rockets debut following an off-season trade from Phoenix, added 23 points and nine rebounds but fouled out on the play that sent Gilgeous-Alexander to the line for the decisive free throws.<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander had earlier forced overtime with a jumper in the closing seconds of regulation, while \u015eeng\u00fcn\u2019s missed fadeaway at the buzzer extended the drama into a second extra frame. Chet Holmgren added 28 points and seven rebounds for Oklahoma City, and the Thunder bench outscored Houston\u2019s 36\u201324.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City now heads to Indiana for a Finals rematch, while Houston travels to Detroit in search of its first win of the new season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston was led by Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn, who continued his strong year after helping Turkiye to a silver medal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-232640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}