{"id":511922,"date":"2026-05-08T03:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=511922"},"modified":"2026-05-08T03:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:04:32","slug":"thunder-beat-lakers-again-in-oklahoma-to-take-2-0-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/thunder-beat-lakers-again-in-oklahoma-to-take-2-0-series-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder beat Lakers again in Oklahoma to take 2-0 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was not even on the court when the Oklahoma City Thunder took control of the game and eventually defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 125-107 to take a comfortable lead in the matchup from the 2nd round in the West Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles had a 5-point lead when Shai picked up his 4th foul only moments after the start of the 2nd half, and the OKC star didn\u2019t play again in the 3rd quarter.<\/p>\n<p>By the time Shai returned to play at the beginning of the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter, Oklahoma City had secured a 13-point lead. Thunder had a 22-4 run soon after Gilgeous-Alexander was benched because of his foul problems, and that was the crucial moment that secured the triumph for the home team, which is still undefeated in the current playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really happy to see how the team played even without me on the court,\u201d Shai revealed after the victory. Despite his limited time on the court, Gilgeous-Alexander finished with 22 points as he matched Chet Holmgren, who notched the same number of points.<\/p>\n<p>Shai added that no matter who plays, OKC can beat any team in the NBA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">OKC had a trio of 20-PT scorers in Game 2!<\/p>\n<p>Chet: 22 PTS<br \/>\nSGA: 22 PTS<br \/>\nMitchell: 20 PTS<\/p>\n<p>Thunder take a 2-0 series lead in the West Semis \ud83c\udf7f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eQKNQCd3Bz\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eQKNQCd3Bz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/2052615722069623241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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 was not even on the court when the Oklahoma City Thunder took control of the game and eventually defeated the Los [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":505491,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16970,16786],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[17645,17840],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The next 2 matches of the series will be in Los Angeles.","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\/511922"}],"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=511922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/511922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511923,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/511922\/revisions\/511923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511922"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=511922"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=511922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}