{"id":438042,"date":"2026-01-28T06:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438042\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T06:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:20:08","slug":"thunder-104-95-pelicans-jan-27-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438042\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder 104-95 Pelicans (Jan 27, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

OKLAHOMA CITY — \u2014 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> scored 29 points and the short-handed Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> beat the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> 104-95 on Tuesday night to avoid their first three-game skid of the season.<\/p>\n

Chet Holmgren<\/a> had 20 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks for NBA-best Oklahoma City (38-10), which had lost back-to-back home games for the first time this season. Isaiah Joe<\/a> added 17 points.<\/p>\n

The Thunder were missing starters Jalen Williams<\/a>, Isaiah Hartenstein<\/a> and Cason Wallace<\/a> and key reserve Alex Caruso<\/a> with injuries.<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander shot 8 of 22 from the field but went 13 of 14 from the foul line. He scored at least 20 points for the 118th consecutive game, the second-longest streak in NBA history.<\/p>\n

Zion Williamson<\/a> led New Orleans with 21 points on 8-of-11 shooting and 11 rebounds. Saddiq Bey<\/a> added 16 points and 13 rebounds for the Pelicans, who had won two straight.<\/p>\n

Tempers flared in the closing minutes. First, Bey and Jaylin Williams<\/a> got tangled up and were assessed technical fouls. With 9 seconds left, Jeremiah Fears<\/a>, who played in college at Oklahoma, and Lu Dort grabbed each other\u2019s jerseys before being separated. Fears then ran after Dort and players from both teams had to be separated.<\/p>\n

The Thunder missed their first eight shots while New Orleans started 1 of 9.<\/p>\n

Dort’s 3-pointer with 10.9 seconds left in the second quarter gave the Thunder a 48-46 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n

The Thunder took a 74-64 lead on a 3-pointer by Holmgren with 3:38 left in the third. A 3 by Dort made it 88-73.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans went on a 14-2 run capped by Fears’ 22-foot bank shot to cut the lead to 92-87. Dort’s fourth 3-pointer made it 98-87 with 3:26 remaining.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Pelicans: Host Memphis on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Thunder: At Minnesota on Thursday night.<\/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 29 points and the short-handed Oklahoma City Thunder beat the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-438042","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\/438042","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=438042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}