{"id":408463,"date":"2026-01-14T10:44:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408463\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:44:29","slug":"sga-chet-holmgren-outduel-wemby-deaaron-fox-as-thunder-beat-spurs-to-impress-nba-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408463\/","title":{"rendered":"SGA, Chet Holmgren Outduel Wemby, De&#8217;Aaron Fox as Thunder Beat Spurs to Impress NBA Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After losing their first three matchups against the San Antonio Spurs this season, the Oklahoma City Thunder finally got in the win column against one of the league&#8217;s rising teams. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Thunder downed the Spurs 119-98 on Tuesday behind a strong performance from reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Gilgeous-Alexander dropped 34 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and four blocks, which matched his career high. Jalen Williams put together a solid outing as well with 20 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Chet Holmgren was far from his best against Victor Wembanyama, putting up just eight points, but he added three blocks and 10 boards. Wembanyama, who is still on a minutes restriction, scored 17 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After the game, fans praised the Thunder for turning things around and avoiding another loss to the Spurs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Spurs have already won the season series against the Thunder, but OKC will look to salvage its final matchup against San Antonio next month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">With the way the two squads have started, it wouldn&#8217;t be a huge surprise to see them face off in the Western Conference Finals. The Thunder sit atop the Western Conference at 34-7, while the Spurs are just behind them at 27-13. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After losing their first three matchups against the San Antonio Spurs this season, the Oklahoma City Thunder finally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-408463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}