{"id":18099,"date":"2025-05-08T08:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T08:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/18099\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T08:23:14","slug":"thunder-set-nba-playoff-record-for-first-half-points-vs-nuggets-in-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/18099\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder set NBA playoff record for first-half points vs. Nuggets in Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com\/nba\/thunder-nba-playoff-record-first-half-points-nuggets-game-2\/664906\/?partner=yahoo&amp;cid=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Thunder set NBA playoff record for first-half points vs. Nuggets in Game 2;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Thunder set NBA playoff record for first-half points vs. Nuggets in Game 2<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com?cid=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBC Sports Philadelphia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NBC Sports Philadelphia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma City Thunder set an <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/tag\/nba\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a> playoff record for first-half points with 87 against the Denver Nuggets in Game 2 of their Western Conference semifinal series Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City surpassed the previous record of 86 set by the Cleveland Cavaliers against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/tag\/golden-state-warriors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Golden State Warriors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Golden State Warriors<\/a> in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on June 9, 2017. Chet Holmgren, who missed two critical free throws late in Game 1, made a pair with a second remaining to set the record.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder tied the record for points in any half of a playoff game. Milwaukee had 87 in the second half against Denver on April 23, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder shot 58.8% from the field and made 17 of 18 free throws to take an 87-56 lead at the break. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the way with 18 points. All five Thunder starters scored in double figures in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City eventually won 149-106 to even the series. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 34 points and eight assists in three quarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thunder set NBA playoff record for first-half points vs. Nuggets in Game 2 originally appeared on NBC Sports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,366,193,187,164,102,6,475,179,209,6720],"class_list":{"0":"post-18099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-chet-holmgren","10":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","11":"tag-denver-nuggets","12":"tag-golden-state-warriors","13":"tag-milwaukee","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-oklahoma-city","16":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","17":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","18":"tag-western-conference-semifinal-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114471253155636722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}