CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 42 points and eight assists and the Oklahoma City Thunder withstood a late rally and beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 124-116 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City beat Cleveland for the second time in three nights. The Thunder (6-2) defeated the Cavs 117-112 in Cleveland.<\/p>\n
Ajay Mitchell added 23 points and rookie Bennett Stirtz 16 for the Thunder, who are 3-2 since the loss of three starters to long-term injuries.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City led 115-102 with 1:47 left, but Donovan Mitchell, who led the Cavaliers with 27 points, made three consecutive 3-pointers to cut the deficit to 117-111 with 46.7 left.<\/p>\n
James Harden scored 19 points and Evan Mobley had 16 points and 10 rebounds for Cleveland (4-4).<\/p>\n
Gilgeous-Alexander made 11 of 26 shots, 5 of 11 from long distance, and converted 15 of 19 foul shots.<\/p>\n
Gilgeous-Alexander scored 43 points and made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 32.6 seconds remaining in the Monday win over Cleveland.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City led by as many as 25 points midway through the second quarter of the rematch. But, Cleveland finished the half on a 19-10 run to pull within 60-44. The Cavaliers scored the first nine points of the third \u2014 seven by Harden \u2014 to make it 60-53.<\/p>\n
The Thunder weathered the run and took a 87-74 lead on a 3-pointer by Stirtz, who made 4 of 7 shots from beyond the arc. The advantage grew to 96-77 on a layup by Mitchell, but the Cavaliers kept applying the pressure.<\/p>\n
Up next\n<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: Host Philadelphia on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Thunder: Play at Memphis on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 42 points and eight assists and the Oklahoma City Thunder withstood a late rally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[41445,2722,2724,852,355,3,6454,138791,99,452],"class_list":["post-906733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-cleveland","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906733","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=906733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}