{"id":481935,"date":"2024-04-14T18:19:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T22:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481935"},"modified":"2024-04-14T18:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T22:19:09","slug":"thunder-trash-mavs-135-86-to-clinch-1st-seed-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/thunder-trash-mavs-135-86-to-clinch-1st-seed-in-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder trash Mavs 135-86 to clinch 1st seed in the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander notched 15 points in 1 half on the court, and the Oklahoma City Thunder routed the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> 135-86 at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, OK, to clinch the 1<sup>st<\/sup> seed in the Western Conference postseason.<\/p>\n<p>OKC finished with the same 57-25 record as the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> but with a better head-to-head record finished above them. That is the team\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> top-seed finish since the 2012-13 campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Win number 57 \u26a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SBX7yqte5Q\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SBX7yqte5Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/okcthunder\/status\/1779625288114020360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/aaron-wiggins\/\">Aaron Wiggins<\/a> notched 14 points, and Chet Holmgren added 13 points and 9 boards for Oklahoma City, which triumphed in their 5<sup>th<\/sup> consecutive match to close the regular campaign.<\/p>\n<p>OKC began the day in a 3-way tie with Denver and Minnesota for the best record in the West. It was the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in league history that 3 organizations began the campaign&#8217;s final day tied for a conference lead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Division Champions for the 6th time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CfSU7Hew7r\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CfSU7Hew7r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/okcthunder\/status\/1779630520768340392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City must wait for the Play-In Tournament&#8217;s end to know who will play against them in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round of the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>National Basketball Association scoring leader <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\">Luka Doncic<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> and star \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\">Kyrie Irving<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> were among the 4 starters that Dallas rested as, in their absence, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/brandon-williams\/\">Brandon Williams<\/a> finished with 22 points for the Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas will play against the Clippers in LA in Game 1 of the Western Conference postseason series, while Oklahoma will host their future opponent in Game 1.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W6hX9yvdyG8?si=TsHpBIqa2OVwdEmF\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander notched 15 points in 1 half on the court, and the Oklahoma City Thunder routed the Dallas Mavericks 135-86 at Paycom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481936,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,17837,16786],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17975,17840,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Oklahoma City secured the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481937,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481935\/revisions\/481937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481935"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481935"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}