{"id":232418,"date":"2026-03-10T04:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/shai-gilgeous-alexander-ties-nba-record-in-heroic-win-vs-nuggets\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T04:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:22:16","slug":"shai-gilgeous-alexander-ties-nba-record-in-heroic-win-vs-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/shai-gilgeous-alexander-ties-nba-record-in-heroic-win-vs-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander ties NBA record in heroic win vs. Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Having already put together a career worthy of legendary status, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma_city_thunder\/85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/shai_gilgeous_alexander\/585755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> had one of the most memorable games of his career to date on Monday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander, 27, was at his best while matching an icon with a share of NBA history as the Thunder beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/denver_nuggets\/82\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> 129-126. He scored 35 points, shooting a 66.7% from the field and falling one rebound away from a triple-double with nine boards and 15 assists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander&#8217;s monster performance saw him tie Wilt Chamberlain for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/thunders_shai_gilgeous_alexander_furthers_pursuit_of_nba_record\/s1_13132_43074591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">longest streak of scoring at least 20 points<\/a> in NBA history at 126 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was the hero in more ways than one\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>But his total statistics and historic achievement still don&#8217;t tell the whole story of why the game was a special one for Gilgeous-Alexander.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/shai_gilgeous_alexander_ties_nba_record_in_heroic_win_vs_nuggets\/s1_13132_43575110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having already put together a career worthy of legendary status, Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had one of the most memorable games of his career to date on Monday night.\u00a0 Gilgeous-Alexander, 27, was at his best while matching an icon with a share of NBA history as the Thunder beat the Denver Nuggets 129-126. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}