{"id":874872,"date":"2026-11-03T08:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/874872\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:42:37","slug":"gilgeous-alexander-leads-oklahoma-city-against-cleveland-after-43-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/874872\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilgeous-Alexander leads Oklahoma City against Cleveland after 43-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (4-3, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> (5-2, fifth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City hosts the Cleveland Cavaliers after Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> scored 43 points in the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 117-112 victory against the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City finished 64-18 overall last season while going 34-8 at home. The Thunder averaged 22.0 points off of turnovers, 13.6 second-chance points and 41.8 bench points last season.<\/p>\n

Cleveland finished 52-30 overall, 33-19 in Eastern Conference action and 25-16 on the road last season. The Cavaliers averaged 119.5 points per game last season, 52.0 in the paint, 18.4 off of turnovers and 14.3 on fast breaks.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time this season. The Thunder won the last meeting 117-112 on Nov. 3, with Gilgeous-Alexander scoring 43 points in the victory.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Thunder: Cason Wallace: out (shoulder), Nikola Topic: out (back), Thomas Sorber<\/a>: out (knee), Chet Holmgren<\/a>: out (knee), Jalen Williams<\/a>: out (ankle), Alex Caruso<\/a>: out (ankle).<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: Nae’Qwan Tomlin: out (back), Jaylon Tyson<\/a>: out (ankle), Peyton Watson<\/a>: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers (4-3, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (5-2, fifth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[328,7,366,193,78812,364,2286,1407,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,1146,209,954,312],"class_list":["post-874872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-alex-caruso","tag-basketball","tag-chet-holmgren","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-event_preview","tag-jalen-williams","tag-jaylon-tyson","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-oklahomacity","tag-oklahomacitythunder","tag-peyton-watson","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-thomas-sorber","tag-thunder"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117551624534474676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874872","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=874872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}