{"id":533276,"date":"2026-03-13T08:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/533276\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:07:07","slug":"shai-gilgeous-alexander-breaks-63-year-nba-points-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/533276\/","title":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander breaks 63-year NBA points record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander said he gives the &#8220;game everything&#8221; after breaking the 63-year-old NBA record for the most 20-point games in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The reigning MVP scored 35 points for the Oklahoma City Thunder in a 104-102 win against the Boston Celtics \u2013 extending a sequence of scoring at least 20 points that began on 1 November 2024 and now stands at 127 consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The legendary Wilt Chamberlain held the previous record with a 126-game streak between October 1961 and January 1963.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All the records and accomplishments are great, but they don&#8217;t matter if you don&#8217;t win and that&#8217;s all that was on my mind,&#8221; said Gilgeous-Alexander, who starred for the Thunder as they won the NBA title last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would have given the record for the W any day of the week. I&#8217;m glad we won and I got the record.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander said he gives the &#8220;game everything&#8221; after breaking the 63-year-old NBA record for the most 20-point&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-533276","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\/533276","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=533276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}