{"id":520844,"date":"2026-03-13T08:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/520844\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:54:07","slug":"shai-gilgeous-alexander-breaks-63-year-nba-points-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/520844\/","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":520845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-520844","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\/520844","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=520844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}