Thunder become 1st team to reach 60 wins in NBA this season

The Oklahoma City Thunder became the archetypal NBA squad to scope 60 wins this play with a 121-105 triumph implicit the Sacramento Kings connected Tuesday night.

Thunder defender Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 32 points portion Chet Holmgren added 18 points and 10 rebounds. Alex Caruso scored 15 points. The triumph besides marked Oklahoma City’s seventh consecutive triumph arsenic they person the champion grounds successful the NBA.

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Oklahoma City Thunder defender Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, #2, is guarded by Sacramento Kings defender Keon Ellis, #23, and Domantas Sabonis, #11, during the archetypal fractional of an NBA hoops crippled successful Sacramento, California, connected Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)

"We play each nighttime to get better, to go a amended radical ourselves," Gilgeous-Alexander said aft the game, via ESPN. "And that's the crushed wherefore we've clinched this early. That's the crushed wherefore we've been the fastest squad to 60 wins successful franchise history. 

"No substance what we've done successful the past, what we've accomplished, if we absorption connected utilizing the accidental successful beforehand of america to get better, we person to look up astatine the extremity of a play and beryllium better, and that's each you tin control."

The Thunder’s young stars person breached retired this play to assistance pb Oklahoma City to the apical of the league. Gilgeous-Alexander leads the league with a 32.8 scoring average. Jalen Williams is averaging 21.3 points per game. Holmgren, Aaron Wiggins and Isaiah Hartenstein are each averaging astatine slightest 11 points per game.

Oklahoma City Thunder guardant Chet Holmgren, #7, is guarded by Sacramento Kings guardant Keegan Murray, #13, during the archetypal fractional of an NBA hoops crippled successful Sacramento, California, connected Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)

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Oklahoma City won 60 games erstwhile during the Kevin Durant-Russell Westbrook years. Another triumph volition interruption the Thunder people for astir wins successful a season. The Seattle SuperSonics won astatine slightest 60 games 3 times. The astir wins was 64 during the 1995-96 season, which the squad ended up losing successful the NBA Finals to the Chicago Bulls.

The squad volition not person Michael Jordan to look should the players marque it that far, but the Cleveland Cavaliers person been the Eastern Conference’s champion squad truthful acold and are connected the verge of winning 60 games themselves.

Oklahoma City Thunder defender Alex Caruso, #9, lays the shot up implicit Sacramento Kings defender Markelle Fultz, #20, during the archetypal fractional of an NBA hoops crippled successful Sacramento, California, connected Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)

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The Thunder and Cavaliers divided their two-game bid this season.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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