On Oct. 30, 2024, Gilgeous-Alexander scored 18 points against San Antonio. It was a normal night, and nobody noticed.

Two nights later, in the Thunder’s fifth game of the season, he scored 30 in a 137-114 win at Portland. That was game one. He would not score fewer than 20 in a regular-season game again for almost two years.

The streak ran from Nov. 1, 2024, to Oct. 20, 2026: 72 games in 2024-25, 68 in 2025-26 and one more on opening night this season.

Streak games by season

The 72 streak games of 2024-25 came at 33.1 points a night, and Oklahoma City won 59 of them. He led the league at 32.7 points a game, the first Canadian to win a scoring title, and the Thunder finished 68-14, the best record in franchise history.

He was named MVP, then Finals MVP after the Thunder beat Indiana 103-91 in Game 7 of the 2025 Finals. He became the fourth player to win MVP, Finals MVP and the scoring title in the same season, after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal.

The streak only counts regular-season games, so the playoff run did not touch it. It went into the summer at 72.

The record belonged to Wilt Chamberlain: 126 straight games of 20 or more from October 1961 to January 1963, a run that covered the season of his 100-point game. It ended on Jan. 20, 1963, when he played only four minutes against the St. Louis Hawks.

The 2025-26 season opened with 35 in a double-overtime win over Houston and a career-high 55 two nights later against Indiana, again in double overtime.

1. Oct. 23, 2025Career-high 55 against Indiana, with 23 of 26 at the line, in a 141-135 double-overtime win.
2. Nov. 4, 2025Game 80: 30 points and 12 assists at the Clippers moves him past Oscar Robertson into third on the all-time list.
3. Dec. 22, 2025Game 100: 31 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists against Memphis. Only Chamberlain had reached 100 before.
4. March 9, 2026Game 126: 35 points, a career-high 15 assists and a game-winning three in a 129-126 win over Denver ties Chamberlain.
5. March 12, 2026Game 127: a jumper with 7:04 left in the third against Boston gives him 21 and the record. He finishes with 35 in a 104-102 win.

Longest 20-point streaks in NBA history

For most of the run, 20 was never in danger. His lowest total in the 141 games was exactly 20, and that happened only six times, all in 2025-26. He scored 20 or 21 just nine times.

The 141 games by points scored

The Thunder went 116-25 in those games, a .823 winning percentage. In 2025-26 he won a second straight MVP, averaged 31.1 points and was named Clutch Player of the Year.

Two nights after scoring 32 at San Antonio for game 141, he could not find the rim against Denver. He missed all seven of his first-half shots and went to halftime with two points, both from free throws, his lowest first half since his first season in Oklahoma City.

1. Halftime0-for-7 from the field, 2 points.
2. End of thirdA jumper early in the quarter and a three at the buzzer get him to 7. Thunder lead 70-64.
3. 7:12 leftHe checks back in needing 13.
4. 1:43 leftA 27-foot three makes it 17 points and 93-76. Denver empties its bench. He asks to come out, and Kenrich Williams checks in.
5. FinalThunder 96, Nuggets 84. He finishes 6-for-19, 3-for-11 from three, with 17 points and a team-best plus-21.

Chet Holmgren said he offered his teammate a few last shots. “I asked him, I said, ‘You want to shoot some threes right here?’ And he was like, ‘Nah,'” Holmgren said. “So I told him he’s a better man than me.”

Jalen Williams, who led the Thunder with 21, said Gilgeous-Alexander was already past it in the locker room. “He walked in the locker room, he said, ‘I’ll just restart.'”