{"id":242100,"date":"2025-10-26T13:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T13:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242100\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T13:40:07","slug":"thunder-117-100-hawks-26-oct-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242100\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder 117-100 Hawks (26 Oct, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA — \u2014 Chet Holmgren<\/a> scored 31 points, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> had 30 and the reigning NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> pulled away in the second half for a 117-100 victory over the short-handed Atlanta Hawks<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The Thunder improved to 3-0 on the season, getting off to another quick start after winning seven straight at the start a year ago on the way to a title.<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a>, the league’s MVP last season. had another big night coming off a career-best 55-point performance<\/a> in a 141-135 victory at Indiana on Thursday night. <\/p>\n

Holmgren was 6 of 8 from beyond the 3-point stripe and grabbed 12 rebounds. Gilgeous-Alexander was nearly perfect on shots inside the arc, making 10 of 11. <\/p>\n

After going to double-overtime to win its first two games, the Thunder didn’t need any extra time to finish off an Atlanta squad that was missing three starters. <\/p>\n

Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> (flu-like symptoms) and Zaccharie Risacher<\/a> (right ankle sprain) each missed their second straight game. They were joined on the bench by Jalen Johnson<\/a>, who sprained his right ankle in a victory at Orlando<\/a> the previous night.<\/p>\n

The game was tight through most of the first half, though Oklahoma City never trailed. The Thunder began to pull away from a 60-55 halftime lead by scoring the first eight points of the third quarter. <\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander knocked down a pull=up jumper and converted a three-point play before Holmgren connected from long range.<\/p>\n

Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a> led the Hawks with 17 points. Atlanta has lost its first two home games of the season<\/a> by a combined 37 points, sandwiched around the road victory over the Magic. <\/p>\n

Oklahoma City point guard Cason Wallace<\/a> got a chance to go against his older brother, Keaton, a backup guard for the Hawks. Cason was held to three points, while Keaton Wallace<\/a> managed five. <\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Thunder: Wrap up a three-game road trip when they face the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> on Monday. <\/p>\n

Hawks: Travel to Chicago to face the Bulls on Monday in the start of a four-game road trip.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA — \u2014 Chet Holmgren scored 31 points, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 30 and the reigning NBA champion Oklahoma…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-242100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242100","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=242100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}