Shai Gilgeous-Alexander dropped 33 points on the Detroit Pistons as the OKC Thunder pick up their 11th straight win. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni discuss the Thunder’s chances at 70 wins, the bad loss for the Kings, and Anthony Davis’ game winner. Then, the Athletic’s James Edwards stops by to talk about the Knicks’ loss to Cleveland, OG Anunoby’s scoring surge, and Jalen Brunson’s return.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Es Baraheni & James EdwardsExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson MoodyRead James Edwards on OG: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6248667/2025/04/02/knicks-og-anunoby-new-york/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. Coming up, the Thunder win again, a bunch of teams had some weird losses, and James Edwards is here to tell us why the Knicks can't beat the best teams. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, S. Morning, morning. Another, hmm, a bit of an off night for the NBA. Not the greatest night of basketball. But the best team in the sport did play last night.
The Thunder handled the Pistons. Pistons shorthanded, of course. Cade Cunningham still out. Bunch of guys serving suspensions from the big melee the other night. But OKC, once again. Just takes care of business. They get their 64th win. They're 64-12. I don't know. We cover this team every single day, almost on this show. There's something to talk about with them.
Shea Gildas Alexander, of course, just continues to rack up the accolades. How many games now has he scored 30 points? 69 games tying Michael Jordan.
Yes.
Very nice. Having a nice season. And I mean, when you look at what they've done, I mean, this is again, this is a dominant basketball team. They continue to dominate. Last night was their 50th win by double digits this season. Tied for the most in NBA history. The track record of teams that have done that, S, pretty good.
Yeah, pretty good championships all around. It seems like they're in line for that. I mean, there's there's tons of expectations there for them to do so. You think about the 1972 Los Angeles Lakers did that. They tied with them. That's the team that they they tied with when they got that 50th double digit win. Won a championship. 2017 Warriors won a championship.
You know, 1971 Milwaukee Bucks won a championship. The 96-97 Bulls, the 08 Celtics, 2015 Warriors. That's the type of team we're talking about when it comes to this Oklahoma City Thunder team. That's just how good they've been all year.
Yeah, and I'm looking at their remaining schedule. They've got Houston. They've got two games against the Lakers. They've got Phoenix. They've got Utah. They've got New Orleans. So I think they're going to set the record for most double-digit wins.
Yeah.
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