{"id":247611,"date":"2025-10-24T03:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/247611\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:16:08","slug":"pacers-fall-to-thunder-in-2ot-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/247611\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers fall to Thunder in 2OT in season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shai-Gilgeous Alexander scored 55 points to lead Oklahoma City to a double-overtime win over Indiana Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The <a href=\"http:\/\/wthr.com\/pacers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> started the new season the same way they ended last season \u2014 in a battle with the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the Thunder, who defeated Indiana in seven games to win the NBA title in June, came out on top of a back-and-forth battle to pick up the 141-135 win in double overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana trailed 54-47 at halftime, but fought back in the third quarter to take the lead. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander split a pair of free throws with 13 seconds remaining in regulation to give Oklahoma City a 113-111 lead. Pascal Siakam hit a jump shot to tie the game with six seconds left, then grabbed a rebound on Gilgeous-Alexander&#8217;s shot to win the game in the final seconds, sending the game to overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander again put the Thunder ahead in overtime, 124-122, with a fadeaway with 27 seconds remaining, but the Pacers answered again, this time with a layup from Bennedict Mathurin with 13 seconds left to send the game to a second extra period.<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander finished with a game-high 55 points for Oklahoma City. Mathurin had 36 points and 11 rebounds for the Pacers.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers are back in action Saturday in Memphis for their first road game of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shai-Gilgeous Alexander scored 55 points to lead Oklahoma City to a double-overtime win over Indiana Thursday night. INDIANAPOLIS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-247611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}