Oklahoma rack up 14th straight NBA win; Durant hits 31K career points

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Gilgeous-Alexander scores 33 points successful Thunder’s triumph implicit the Mavericks portion Houston Rockets bushed Phoenix Suns.

Published On 6 Dec 2025

NBA champions Oklahoma City Thunder powered to their 14th consecutive victory, beating the Dallas Mavericks 132-111 to propulsion their grounds to an awesome 22 wins and 1 loss.

NBA Most Valuable Player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 33 points and Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren added 15 apiece successful Friday’s crippled for Oklahoma City, who are disconnected to the champion commencement to a play since the Golden State Warriors opened the 2015-16 run 24-0.

Up by 30 done 3 quarters, the Thunder rested their starters successful the last period, the Mavericks’ three-game winning streak ending with a thud.

Jaden Hardy scored 23 points disconnected the seat to pb the Mavs connected a nighttime erstwhile prima centre Anthony Davis scored conscionable 2 points, making his lone handbasket of the nighttime successful an irrelevant 4 minutes connected tribunal successful the last frame.

The oft-injured Davis had checked retired of the contention successful the 3rd 4th aft appearing to injure his near knee, sitting connected the seat with it wrapped earlier returning to the game.

The Boston Celtics, led by 30 points from Jaylen Brown, cruised past the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers 126-105.

The marquee clash mislaid overmuch of its lustre, with Lakers superstar LeBron James sidelined by the sciatica that caused him to miss the archetypal 14 games of his 23rd play and by ft associated arthritis.

Luka Doncic was besides absent, missing a 2nd crippled for idiosyncratic reasons. Austin Reaves scored 36 points to pb the Lakers, but Boston ne'er trailed and led by arsenic galore arsenic 29.

Denver prima Nikola Jokic scored 30 of his 40 points successful the 2nd fractional arsenic the Nuggets rallied to borderline the Hawks 134-133 successful Atlanta.

Hawks guardant Jalen Johnson had a triple-double by halftime with 11 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists earlier the interruption and finished with 21 points, 18 rebounds and 16 assists.

But the Nuggets, who trailed by arsenic galore arsenic 23 precocious successful the archetypal half, enactment up 80 points successful the 2nd fractional to complaint back.

Jamal Murray scored 23 points and came up with a large artifact successful the waning seconds to assistance Denver bent connected for their ninth consecutive roadworthy win.

In Orlando, Franz Wagner scored 32 points and Jalen Suggs added 22 arsenic the Magic held connected for a 106-105 location triumph implicit the Miami Heat.

Miami, trailing their cross-state rivals by 10 aboriginal successful the 4th quarter, chopped the shortage to 1 connected Norman Powell’s driving layup with 50.9 seconds remaining.

Miami had chances to triumph it successful the waning seconds, but Powell missed a fadeaway jumper, the Heat had to pain their past timeout erstwhile they were incapable to inbound the ball, and Bam Adebayo missed a three-pointer arsenic clip expired.

🏀FRIDAY'S FINAL SCORES 🏀

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scores 30 points successful nether 30 minutes arsenic the @okcthunder triumph their 14th successful a enactment and determination to 22-1!

Jalen Williams: 15 PTS, 8 REB, 5 AST
Chet Holmgren: 15 PTS, 8 REB https://t.co/evv3lJ0XNk pic.twitter.com/ao2dympQyG

— NBA (@NBA) December 6, 2025

Durant hits 31k

It was a milestone nighttime for Houston prima Kevin Durant, who became the eighth subordinate successful NBA past to people 31,000 vocation points successful the Rockets’ 117-98 triumph implicit the Phoenix Suns.

Durant came into his archetypal crippled against his erstwhile squad since a blockbuster July trade, needing conscionable 4 points to scope the mark, which helium achieved with a leap changeable midway done the archetypal quarter.

Durant, eighth connected the league’s all-time scoring list, finished with 28 points, and teammate Amen Thompson scored his season-high of 31 arsenic the Rockets claimed a 5th triumph successful six games.

“I’m conscionable grateful to beryllium successful this presumption to unrecorded retired my dreams each azygous day,” Durant, a erstwhile NBA Most Valuable Player and a two-time champion, said of his latest milestone. “So galore radical person invested successful my life. I’m conscionable grateful for them and I privation to support it going.”

At Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks opened connected a 23-0 scoring tally and kept the pedal down successful a 146-112 rout of the Utah Jazz.