{"id":402288,"date":"2026-01-12T04:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402288\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:04:11","slug":"thunder-124-112-heat-jan-11-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402288\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder 124-112 Heat (Jan 11, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

OKLAHOMA CITY — \u2014 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> scored 29 points after a slow start and the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> beat the Miami Heat<\/a> 124-112 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Jalen Williams<\/a> had 19 points for Oklahoma City, and Chet Holmgren<\/a> and Ajay Mitchell<\/a> each added 16. The Thunder have won three straight.<\/p>\n

Andrew Wiggins<\/a> scored 23 points \u2014 including seven 3-pointers — to lead Miami, which has lost three straight. Tyler Herro<\/a> had 19 points and Pelle Larsson<\/a> added 16.<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander missed his first five shots of the game, but then went 10 for 14 from the field the rest of the way to top the 20-point mark for the 110th consecutive game.<\/p>\n

With about four minutes remaining in the third, Gilgeous-Alexander \u2014 who had 16 points in the quarter \u2014 made a 3-pointer and pumped his fist while he walked back toward the other end as Miami called a timeout. It was part of a 15-0 run that gave the Thunder a 13-point lead.<\/p>\n

Both teams came in among the top four in the NBA in defensive rating, and while Oklahoma City and Miami both shot better than 50%, the defenses left their mark.<\/p>\n

The Thunder scored 39 points off 23 Heat turnovers.<\/p>\n

Miami forced five Oklahoma City turnovers in the opening quarter but the Thunder had just eight turnovers the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

Miami led by as many as nine in the first quarter, but the Thunder used a 14-2 run late in the quarter to regain the lead before the Heat scored five consecutive points in the final 4 seconds of the quarter, ending the period on Wiggins\u2019 steal and corner 3-pointer at the buzzer.<\/p>\n

Norman Powell<\/a> missed the game for the Heat with lower back soreness.<\/p>\n

Jaylin Williams<\/a>, who hadn\u2019t played since Dec. 13 with heel bursitis, scired nine points in his return for Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Heat: Host Phoenix on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Thunder: Host San Antonio on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY — \u2014 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 29 points after a slow start and the Oklahoma City Thunder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-402288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402288","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=402288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}