{"id":492700,"date":"2025-05-19T02:27:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T06:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492700"},"modified":"2025-05-19T02:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T06:27:32","slug":"gilgeous-alexander-scores-35-points-to-push-thunder-over-nuggets-for-western-conference-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/gilgeous-alexander-scores-35-points-to-push-thunder-over-nuggets-for-western-conference-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilgeous-Alexander scores 35 points to push Thunder over Nuggets for Western Conference final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 35 points, Jalen Williams added 24, and the Oklahoma City Thunder cruised past the Denver Nuggets with a 125-93 win in Game 7 to advance to the Western Conference finals.<\/p>\n<p>The top-seeded Thunder will face the sixth-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves, with the series starting Tuesday in Oklahoma City. This marks the Thunder&#8217;s first trip to the conference finals since 2016.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">GOODNIGHT \u270c\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZQ35QLtRjJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZQ35QLtRjJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/okcthunder\/status\/1924276319203856520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City finished the regular season with the league\u2019s best record at 68-14, becoming the youngest team in NBA history to win 60 or more games. To validate their dominance, they had to overcome three-time MVP Nikola Jokic and the defending champion Nuggets, who had previously defeated the Los Angeles Clippers in seven games in the first round.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FELT THE ENERGY ALL SERIES LONG \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0xiAYdhQea\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0xiAYdhQea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/okcthunder\/status\/1924243215831437384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jokic led Denver with 20 points, nine rebounds, and seven assists. Aaron Gordon, who played a key role throughout the playoffs and hit the game-winner in Game 1 against OKC, started despite a strained hamstring and finished with eight points and 11 rebounds in 24 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0GfxOnERQ_M?si=Cx9m9Os-m4NTW0Ir\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 35 points, Jalen Williams added 24, and the Oklahoma City Thunder cruised past the Denver Nuggets with a 125-93 win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":492701,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,16786,18636],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,17840,22872],"acf":{"announce":"The top-seeded Thunder will face the sixth-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves, starting on Tuesday in Oklahoma","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\/492700"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492702,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492700\/revisions\/492702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492700"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492700"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}