{"id":411648,"date":"2026-01-14T05:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411648\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T05:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:42:07","slug":"gilgeous-alexander-scores-34-as-thunder-top-spurs-for-first-time-in-four-meetings-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411648\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilgeous-Alexander scores 34 as Thunder top Spurs for first time in four meetings this season"},"content":{"rendered":"

OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points, and the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder beat San Antonio 119-98 on Tuesday night to earn their first win in four tries against the Spurs this season.<\/p>\n

Jalen Williams added 20 points and Chet Holmgren chipped in eight points, 10 rebounds and three blocks for Oklahoma City. The Thunder improved to a league-best 34-7 at the midway point of the season \u2014 on pace to match last season’s 68-14 regular-season finish.<\/p>\n

Stephon Castle scored 20 points and Victor Wembanyama added 17 points and seven rebounds for the Spurs.<\/p>\n

San Antonio started the night in second place behind Oklahoma City in the Western Conference standings. The Spurs announced their presence as a title contender with the three wins over the Thunder in a two-week span last month, but now they have lost six of 10.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City started this season with a 24-1 record, then hit a lull that included the three losses to the Spurs. The Thunder have recovered and now have won four straight.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City won without two starters \u2014 top rebounder Isaiah Hartenstein and defensive stopper Lu Dort. The Thunder still held the Spurs to 40% shooting from the floor.<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander scored 13 points in the first quarter to help the Thunder take a 32-26 lead. The Thunder led 55-52 at halftime.<\/p>\n

In the third quarter, Gilgeous-Alexander scored and was fouled, and his free throw gave the Thunder a 73-62 lead. It also gave him his 111th consecutive game with at least 20 points, extending the second-longest streak in NBA history.<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander eventually finished with 15 points in the quarter, and Oklahoma City took a 95-76 lead into the fourth.<\/p>\n

The teams will play for the last time this regular season on Feb. 4 in San Antonio.<\/p>\n

Spurs: Host the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Thunder: Visit the Houston Rockets on Thursday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points, and the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder beat San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,843,1193,134,1194,180,322,590,44,1195,1198,1196,85,434,1191,1197,1192],"class_list":["post-411648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-entertainment","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-recreation","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411648","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=411648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}