Oklahoma Levels NBA Finals as Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Makes History
Oklahoma City Thunder bounced back in Game 2 of the NBA Finals, overpowering the Indiana Pacers with a 123–107 victory to tie the series at 1–1.
The star of the night was none other than Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. The Canadian guard put on a clinic, dropping 34 points to lead all scorers. More significantly, he crossed the 3,000-point mark for the season — becoming just the 12th player in NBA history to achieve that feat in a single campaign.
But Gilgeous-Alexander wasn’t done rewriting the record books. His combined 72 points across Games 1 and 2 (38 in the opener, 34 in Game 2) now stand as the highest total ever scored by a player in the first two games of an NBA Finals. No one — not Michael Jordan, not LeBron James, not even Stephen Curry — has started a Finals series this explosively.
