{"id":488319,"date":"2026-03-16T08:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=488319"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:34:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:34:01","slug":"thunder-win-eighth-straight-as-shai-gilgeous-alexander-barely-extends-20-point-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/thunder-win-eighth-straight-as-shai-gilgeous-alexander-barely-extends-20-point-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder win eighth straight as Shai Gilgeous-Alexander barely extends 20-point streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1538\" data-end=\"1914\">The <strong data-start=\"1542\" data-end=\"1567\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong> defeated the <strong data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1607\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/strong> 116-103 on Sunday for their <strong data-start=\"1636\" data-end=\"1659\">eighth straight win<\/strong>, improving to an NBA-best <strong data-start=\"1686\" data-end=\"1695\">53-15<\/strong>. <strong data-start=\"1697\" data-end=\"1724\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/strong> posted <strong data-start=\"1732\" data-end=\"1760\">20 points and 10 assists<\/strong>, narrowly extending his record streak of <strong data-start=\"1802\" data-end=\"1851\">128 consecutive games with at least 20 points<\/strong>, pushing further past <strong data-start=\"1874\" data-end=\"1894\">Wilt Chamberlain<\/strong>\u2019s old mark (126).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1916\" data-end=\"2273\">SGA had <strong data-start=\"1924\" data-end=\"1957\">10 points entering the fourth<\/strong>, then checked back in with 7:10 left. A stepback jumper over <strong data-start=\"2019\" data-end=\"2038\">Anthony Edwards<\/strong> with 1:46 remaining and a foul sent him to the line, where he hit the free throw to keep the streak alive as the crowd chanted \u201cM-V-P!\u201d. \u201cI didn\u2019t care about anything besides winning\u2026 winning is all that matters,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2275\" data-end=\"2564\"><strong data-start=\"2275\" data-end=\"2292\">Chet Holmgren<\/strong> added <strong data-start=\"2299\" data-end=\"2330\">21 points and nine rebounds<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"2336\" data-end=\"2350\">Isaiah Joe<\/strong> scored <strong data-start=\"2358\" data-end=\"2364\">20<\/strong> for OKC. <strong data-start=\"2374\" data-end=\"2391\">Julius Randle<\/strong> led Minnesota with <strong data-start=\"2411\" data-end=\"2417\">32<\/strong>, with Edwards adding <strong data-start=\"2439\" data-end=\"2445\">19<\/strong>, but the Wolves committed <strong data-start=\"2472\" data-end=\"2488\">22 turnovers<\/strong> while the Thunder had only seven, plus a major shot-volume edge (101-77).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKC beats the Timberwolves 116-103: SGA reaches 128 straight games with 20+ points, Holmgren and Joe deliver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-488319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Oklahoma-City-Thunder.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488319"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=488319"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=488319"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=488319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}