Feeding the hot hand, the Oklahoma City Thunder saw Isaiah Hartenstein look like prime Wilt Chamberlain. The Sacramento Kings had no answer as the seven-footer rolled to the basket for easy dunks. When they didn’t happen, putback dunks and patented floaters did.

Hartenstein had a career night in the Thunder’s 132-101 win over the Kings in the 2025 NBA Cup group play. He finished with a career high 33 points on 14-of-17 shooting and 19 rebounds.

At halftime, Hartenstein had a 20-point double-double. For context, he’s only had two games in his OKC tenure that reached that mark. He did it in one half over Drew Eubanks as Domantas Sabonis was out.

Let’s look at what the Thunder said about Hartenstein’s unreal 33-19 double-double. He’s been a double-double machine since he arrived in OKC:

Mark Daigneault

“As time’s gone on here, he’s gotten better and better with his teammates here, inside the system here. He was obviously highly impactful at the beginning, but he’s only gotten better, especially on the offense and on the floor, just finding his way inside of our system and with his teammates. Tonight was a reflection of that.”

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

“He made a few really night plays individually. He did what he did every night at a very high level. I think the ball and energy rewarded him. He was open on a lot of rolls and lobs and stuff like that. Just really good. He does a really good job of doing the little things to get people open. And then the defense reacts and he gets open. He does that at a really high level, which is why he had 100 dunks tonight.”

Isaiah Hartenstein

“I think we have a great group of guys that play together. You see each night, someone else steps up and I think that’s because we trust one another. Even Zai had some great nights before, Ajay. You know what you get out of Shai. I think that’s what makes it special. Any given night, someone can step up. I think tonight was just my night.”

Ajay Mitchell

“He was on one today. Hart is a great player. We were able to find him and he had a great game. It made it very easy for us… It was a pretty good game. Not too bad. He plays the right way. One of our leaders. Always plays hard when he’s out there. Is a very high-IQ player, so makes it very easy for us as guards to play with him.”