{"id":495974,"date":"2026-05-08T07:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=495974"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:47:29","slug":"shai-gilgeous-alexander-leads-okc-as-thunder-take-2-0-lead-over-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/shai-gilgeous-alexander-leads-okc-as-thunder-take-2-0-lead-over-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander leads OKC as Thunder take 2-0 lead over Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1235\" data-end=\"1419\">The <strong data-start=\"1239\" data-end=\"1264\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong> stayed perfect in the NBA playoffs, taking a <strong data-start=\"1310\" data-end=\"1322\">2-0 lead<\/strong> in their Western Conference semifinal series with a 125-107 win over the <strong data-start=\"1396\" data-end=\"1418\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1421\" data-end=\"1630\"><strong data-start=\"1421\" data-end=\"1448\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/strong> finished with 22 points in a game also marked by foul trouble. In the third quarter, he picked up his fourth foul and was assessed a flagrant 1 after a play involving Austin Reaves.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1632\" data-end=\"1828\">The Thunder still took control while Shai was on the bench, building the decisive run before closing the game out. OKC improved to <strong data-start=\"1763\" data-end=\"1786\">6-0 in the playoffs<\/strong>, with Game 3 now shifting to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander called for a Flagrant foul on this play. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oMX4OTLWT8\">pic.twitter.com\/oMX4OTLWT8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheHoopCentral\/status\/2052587201293406264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 22 points as the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Los Angeles Lakers 125-107 in Game 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":495973,"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":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-495974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-08-alle-07.45.00.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495974","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=495974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495974"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=495974"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=495974"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=495974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}