{"id":411814,"date":"2026-01-14T07:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411814\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:28:07","slug":"gilgeous-alexander-shines-as-thunder-halt-spurs-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411814\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilgeous-Alexander shines as Thunder halt Spurs losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points as the Oklahoma City Thunder snapped a three-game losing streak against the San Antonio Spurs with a 119-98 victory over their Western Conference rivals on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio has been the NBA champions&#8217; bogey team this season, winning all three of their previous meetings last month with a series of wins that hinted at a tilt in the balance of power in the West.<\/p>\n<p>But the Thunder&#8217;s potent offense and stifling defense finally got the upper hand over the Victor Wembanyama-led Spurs at Oklahoma City&#8217;s Paycom Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points as the Oklahoma City Thunder snapped a three-game losing streak against the San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,5548,10549,12841,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-411814","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-oklahoma-city-thunder","12":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","13":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411814","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=411814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}