{"id":715049,"date":"2026-04-21T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715049\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:32:16","slug":"thunder-take-1-0-lead-into-game-2-against-the-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715049\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder take 1-0 lead into game 2 against the Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phoenix Suns<\/a> (45-37, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> (64-18, first in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City; Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Thunder -17.5; over\/under is 214.5<\/p>\n

WESTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Thunder lead series 1-0<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Oklahoma City Thunder host the Phoenix Suns in the Western Conference first round with a 1-0 lead in the series. The Thunder won the last matchup 119-84 on Sunday, led by 25 points from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a>. Devin Booker<\/a> led the Suns with 23.<\/p>\n

The Thunder have gone 41-11 against Western Conference opponents. Oklahoma City ranks fifth in the Western Conference in rebounding with 44.1 rebounds. Chet Holmgren<\/a> leads the Thunder with 8.9 boards.<\/p>\n

The Suns are 29-23 against Western Conference opponents. Phoenix is 7-10 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n

The 119.0 points per game the Thunder score are 7.9 more points than the Suns give up (111.1). The Suns are shooting 45.5% from the field, 1.8% higher than the 43.7% the Thunder’s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Gilgeous-Alexander is scoring 31.1 points per game with 4.3 rebounds and 6.6 assists for the Thunder. Holmgren is averaging 11.8 points and 6.0 rebounds while shooting 59.7% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Royce O’Neale is shooting 42.0% and averaging 9.8 points for the Suns. Booker is averaging 1.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Thunder: 8-2, averaging 122.1 points, 46.1 rebounds, 28.3 assists, 10.5 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 49.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Suns: 5-5, averaging 111.2 points, 44.6 rebounds, 23.2 assists, 7.5 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 45.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.5 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Thunder: Thomas Sorber<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

Suns: Mark Williams: day to day (foot), Jordan Goodwin<\/a>: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns (45-37, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (64-18, first in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,366,2292,78812,397,1407,6,179,2065,472,4045,209,604,954],"class_list":{"0":"post-715049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-chet-holmgren","10":"tag-devin-booker","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-jordan-goodwin","13":"tag-national-basketball-association","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","16":"tag-phoenix","17":"tag-phoenix-suns","18":"tag-phoenixsuns","19":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","20":"tag-suns","21":"tag-thomas-sorber"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116441771889953522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715049","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=715049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}