Latest / The Sports Hangover Daily / SGA Breaks NBA Record with 136 Straight 20+ Point Games | Mar 31, 2026
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- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander just dropped forty-seven points in overtime and broke an NBA record that literally nobody saw coming. Welcome to The Sports Hangover, I'm your host Michael Benatar. And here's today's sports breakdown. So let's talk about what SGA did last night because honestly, I'm still trying to process it. Forty-seven points on twelve of nineteen shooting against Detroit in overtime. But here's the crazy part — he shot twenty-one of twenty-five from the free throw line. That's not a typo. Twenty-one free throws made. The man was getting to the line at will and just refused to miss. But the record that blew my mind? This dude has now scored twenty or more points in one hundred and thirty-six straight games. That's an NBA record. Think about that for a second — he hasn't had a bad shooting night in over four months of basketball. We're talking about a streak that started last season and just keeps going. LeBron's old record was one twenty-seven games, and SGA just casually broke it on a Monday night in Detroit. The Thunder won one fourteen to one ten in OT, and this was their fifteenth win in sixteen games. They're now sixty and fifteen, which makes them the first team to hit sixty wins this season. But here's what's really insane — this is back-to-back sixty-win seasons for Oklahoma City. Remember when this was supposed to be a rebuild? Yeah, that's over. Look, I've been watching SGA all season, and the man is having a legitimate MVP conversation year. He's averaging thirty-one points per game while shooting forty-three percent from three. The efficiency is ridiculous. And the clutch factor? He's been automatic in crunch time. When the Thunder need a bucket, they just give it to Shai and get out of the way. The Western Conference race is getting wild too. San Antonio is only two games back, and Victor Wembanyama had his own ridiculous night, but we'll get to that. Point is, OKC just sent a message — they're not giving up that number one seed without a fight. Speaking of Wembanyama, the kid had forty-one and sixteen in San Antonio's win over Chicago. But get this — he recorded the fastest double-double in NBA history. Eight minutes. Eight. By the time you finish your first beer at the game, Wembanyama already had a double-double. That's not basketball, that's a video game. The Spurs won one twenty-nine to one fourteen, and they're on a nine-game winning streak. They went fourteen and two in March, which is just absurd for a team that was supposed to be learning how to win. Wembanyama is averaging twenty-eight and twelve since the All-Star break, and he's shooting thirty-eight percent from three over that stretch. At seven-foot-four. It's getting weird how good this kid is. Miami beat Philly one nineteen to one oh nine, which means the Sixers are still a disaster. Joel Embiid played thirty-two minutes and looked completely checked out. I don't know what's going on in Philadelphia, but they went from championship contender to play-in tournament team real quick. The Lakers handled Washington one twenty to one oh one, and LeBron had twenty-eight and nine assists. At thirty-nine years old. I'm starting to think he's actually gonna play until he's fifty. Anthony Davis had thirty-two points and looked dominant, which means it's Tuesday — that's just what AD does against bad teams. Minnesota absolutely destroyed Dallas one twenty-four to ninety-four. Thirty-point beatdown. Anthony Edwards had thirty-five points and was talking trash the entire fourth quarter. The Timberwolves are seven and three in their last ten, and they're starting to look like the team that made the conference finals last year. Now let's talk NFL because the draft is in three weeks and teams are making some interesting moves. Buffalo just picked up Dalton Kincaid's fifth-year option for eight point one six million. Smart move. The kid had seventy catches as a rookie tight end, which is pretty damn good for a guy who was supposed to be a project. But the bigger story is this Jaylen Waddle trade that went down over the weekend. Miami traded him and a fourth-rounder to Denver for a first, a third, and a fourth. That's a haul for a receiver who's been inconsistent. Denver's betting they can unlock him, but I'm not sure Sean Payton's offense is gonna fix Waddle's route-running issues. The Minkah Fitzpatrick trade to the Jets is more interesting to me. They gave up basically nothing — just a seventh-rounder — and signed him to a three-year, forty million dollar extension. That's elite safety money for a guy who's been good but not great the last two seasons. But the Jets needed secondary help, and Fitzpatrick knows that division. Here's my hangover take — the Thunder are gonna win the West, and it's not gonna be close. I know everyone's obsessed with San Antonio and Wembanyama, and rightfully so. The kid's a generational talent. But SGA is having the best season by a point guard since peak Chris Paul, and this Thunder team has championship depth. They've got the best record in the league, they're healthy, and they're peaking at the right time. Fifteen wins in sixteen games heading into the playoffs? That's championship-level basketball. Plus, they've got home-court advantage throughout the West, which matters way more than people think. The Spurs are fun and Wembanyama is incredible, but they're still too young for a deep playoff run. The Warriors are too old. The Nuggets lost too much depth. The Thunder are right in that sweet spot — experienced enough to handle pressure, young enough to have legs in May. Mark it down — Oklahoma City wins the Western Conference, and SGA wins Finals MVP. The rebuild is over. The championship window is wide open. That's your hangover. Go hydrate. I'll see you tomorrow.