{"id":38963,"date":"2025-11-05T09:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/38963\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:24:13","slug":"kawhi-less-clippers-are-no-match-for-undefeated-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/38963\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi-less Clippers are no match for undefeated Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 30 points and 12 assists and the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder extended their season-opening winning streak to eight games with <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/okc-vs-lac-0022500170\/box-score\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a 126-107 victory<\/a> over <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Clippers<\/a> at Intuit Dome on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah Joe added 22 points and Cason Wallace and Aaron Wiggins each had 12 to help the Thunder overcome an early surge by the Clippers to set a franchise record for consecutive victories to start a season.<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander, who played for the Clippers in his rookie season before he was traded to the Thunder, was nine of 14 from the floor and four of five from three-point range.<\/p>\n<p>James Harden scored 25 points and John Collins added 17 for the Clippers. They were without Kawhi Leonard (ankle) and Bradley Beal (knee) on the second night of a home back-to-back.<\/p>\n<p>Derrick Jones Jr. scored 16 points as the Clippers lost consecutive home games after winning the first three in their own building.<\/p>\n<p>After trailing by as many as 13 points in the first half, the Thunder took the lead for good at 81-78 on a three-pointer from Aaron Wiggins with 3:34 remaining in the third quarter. Oklahoma City closed the quarter on an 8-2 run to take a 94-86 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder put the game away with a 11-0 run to open the fourth quarter for a 105-86 advantage. It was an extended 17-0 run going back to consecutive three-pointers from Isaiah Joe and Gilgeous-Alexander to end the third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 30 points and 12 assists and the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder extended their season-opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[26750,26752,26749,423,26748,26746,48,52,51,5814,47,50,49,22169,1417,26751,2668,278,7577,26747,8934],"class_list":["post-38963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-aaron-wiggins","tag-bradley-beal","tag-champion-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-game","tag-isaiah-joe","tag-kawhi-less-clippers","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lead","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-match","tag-point","tag-quarter","tag-run","tag-season","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-undefeated-thunder","tag-victory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}