{"id":340801,"date":"2025-12-11T03:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/340801\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T03:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:07:11","slug":"nba-cup-2025-thunder-post-nbas-biggest-blowout-of-the-season-with-49-point-win-over-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/340801\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Cup 2025: Thunder post NBA’s biggest blowout of the season with 49-point win over Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final trips to Las Vegas are being booked in the 2025 NBA Cup quarterfinals on Wednesday, with the four remaining teams in the West squaring off.<\/p>\n

The Orlando Magic and New York Knicks clinched their spots in the semifinals on Tuesday<\/a>, leaving two left for the Oklahoma City Thunder, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs to fight it out on the second day of action.<\/p>\n

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Let’s just say the first game went the Thunder’s way.<\/p>\n

Reaching Vegas already means a significant raise for some players. Each full-time player on a semifinal roster earns a $106,187 paycheck, which escalates with each subsequent round of the NBA Cup. The championship-winning players will earn $530,933, a nice payday for anyone playing on or near the league minimum $1.366 million salary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thunder show no mercy to short-handed Suns<\/p>\n

The Oklahoma City Thunder were 23-1. The Phoenix Suns were missing Devin Booker. What did you expect?<\/p>\n

OKC took its first lead 53 seconds into the game and it’s first double-digit lead four minutes into the game. Less than a minute into the second quarter, it led by 20. Less than a minute into the third quarter, it led by 30. Less than a minute into the fourth quarter, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was taking his usual blowout rest.<\/p>\n

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And then the Thunder bench started working over Phoenix over.<\/p>\n

The lone drama after the first quarter was Grayson Allen getting ejected for going old-school Grayson Allen on Chet Holmgren<\/a>. Beyond that, it was a barbaric show of force at the Paycom Center, with the NBA’s current all-time leader in scoring margin posting the largest margin of victory of any NBA game this season.<\/p>\n

The record is now 24-1, with 16 straight wins. They are the second team in NBA history to begin a season 24-1 or better, joining the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander led all scorers with 28 points on 11-of-15 shooting plus 8 assists, 2 rebounds and 2 steals. Chet Holmgren also had 28 points on 13 shots, 8 rebounds, 3 blocks and 2 assists.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to imagine Booker’s presence swinging the result, not when the Thunder were executing at as high a level as we’ve seen all season. The Suns star was ruled out with a groin strain ahead of the game. He hasn’t played since the Suns’ win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Dec. 1 and has now missed three games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final trips to Las Vegas are being booked in the 2025 NBA Cup quarterfinals on Wednesday, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,3894,7224,5552,16476,7232,590,1666,5548,12985,7185,10549,12841,85],"class_list":["post-340801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chet-holmgren","tag-devin-booker","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-grayson-allen","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-orlando-magic","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340801","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=340801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}