{"id":938002,"date":"2026-10-23T10:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938002\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:20:15","slug":"gilgeous-alexanders-20-point-scoring-streak-ends-in-thunders-win-vs-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938002\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilgeous-Alexander&#8217;s 20-point scoring streak ends in Thunder&#8217;s win vs. Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Jalen Williams scored 21 points, Chet Holmgren had 12 points and 17 rebounds, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"oklahoma-city-thunder\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> withstood a poor shooting night from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/shai-gilgeous-alexander\/d9ea4a8f-ff51-408d-b518-980efc2a35a1\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"d9ea4a8f-ff51-408d-b518-980efc2a35a1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> in their home opener to beat the Denver Nuggets 96-84 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander, who scored 32 points in a convincing win over San Antonio on Tuesday night, finished with 17 points on 6-of-19 shooting against Denver. He failed to score 20 points for the first time in 141 games.<\/p>\n<p>Before Thursday, the last time Gilgeous-Alexander was held under 20 was when he scored 18 on Oct. 30, 2024, against San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>The league&#8217;s two-time reigning MVP broke Wilt Chamberlain&#8217;s NBA record for consecutive games with 20 points or more last season when he hit the mark in his 127th straight game.<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander missed all seven shots he took in the first 24 minutes Thursday as the Thunder trailed by as many as nine points. A pair of free throws kept him from going scoreless in a half for the first time since his rookie year with the Clippers in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>It marked just the fourth time in 450 games with the Thunder that he&#8217;s gone without a field goal in a half. Gilgeous-Alexander scored the first basket of the third quarter to pull Oklahoma City to 48-46.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Gordon scored 20 points and Nikola Jokic and DeMar DeRozan added 13 apiece for Denver, which was playing its first game.<\/p>\n<p>A layup by Mitchell gave the Thunder a 64-62 lead \u2014 their first since 3-0 \u2014 and 3-pointers by Alex Caruso and Alexander extended it to 70-64 after three quarters. Oklahoma City extended the advantage to 93-76 on a 3 by Gilgeous-Alexander to give him 17 points with 1:44 left. He then asked to be taken out during a timeout and did not return to the game.<\/p>\n<p>Nuggets: Host New Orleans on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Thunder: Host the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 with files from Sportsnet Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Jalen Williams scored 21 points, Chet Holmgren had 12 points and 17 rebounds, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-938002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938002","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=938002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}