Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s 141-game streak in numbers: 4,529 points, 92 games of 30-plus and how it ended three points short

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s run of 20-point games is over. The Thunder guard scored 17 in Thursday’s 96-84 win over Denver, ending an NBA-record streak of 141 straight regular-season games with at least 20 points. It began on Nov. 1, 2024, and lasted nearly two full seasons.

He left the game with 1:43 to play, three points short, after hitting a three that put Oklahoma City up 93-76. Here is what the streak looked like in numbers, how it ended, and what the rest of the league’s first round of games says about shooting this October.

The numbers that stand out

141 straight games of 20 or more, 15 more than Wilt Chamberlain’s old record of 126, set from 1961 to 1963
4,529 points in those 141 games, an average of 32.1
92 games of 30 or more, 21 of 40 or more and five of 50 or more, with a high of 55 against Indiana last October
Oklahoma City went 116-25 in the 141 games
He shot 53.7% from the field, 38.5% from three and 88.9% on 1,266 free-throw attempts during the run

How the streak ended

Thursday was the hardest night of the run from the start. Gilgeous-Alexander missed all seven of his shots in the first half and had two points at the break, both from free throws. A layup early in the third quarter and a 25-foot three just before the buzzer got him to seven, with Oklahoma City leading 70-64.

He sat at the start of the fourth and came back with 7:12 left, needing 13 points. He scored 10 in five and a half minutes on a step-back jumper, a fadeaway from 25 feet, an 11-foot fadeaway and a 27-foot three. Then Kenrich Williams checked in for him with 1:43 to go and the Thunder up 17.

Mark Daigneault said Gilgeous-Alexander asked to come out. “It’s a historic record. So, it’s a bit of a dilemma if you’re in my position. But he put me in a great position there,” Daigneault said, adding that he would have left him in.

Gilgeous-Alexander finished 6-for-19 from the field, 3-for-11 from three and 2-for-2 at the line in 35 minutes. The last time he scored fewer than 20 in a regular-season game was Oct. 30, 2024, when he had 18 against San Antonio.

The streak in numbers

141-game streak	Total
Dates	Nov. 1, 2024 to Oct. 20, 2026
Games by season	72 in 2024-25, 68 in 2025-26, 1 in 2026-27
Points	4,529 (32.1 a game)
Field goals	53.7%
Three-pointers	38.5%
Free throws	1,125 of 1,266 (88.9%)
True shooting	65.2%
30-point games	92
40-point games	21
50-point games	5 (55, 54, 52, 51, 50)
Thunder record	116-25

He tied Chamberlain with his 126th straight game on March 9, 2026, scoring 35 and hitting the go-ahead three with 2.7 seconds left in a 129-126 win over Denver. He passed him three days later with 35 more in a 104-102 win over Boston. Chamberlain’s streak covered the 1961-62 season, the one with his 100-point game, and ended on Jan. 20, 1963, when he played only four minutes against the St. Louis Hawks. His Warriors went 66-60 during his run.

The close calls

For most of the streak, 20 was nowhere near in doubt. His lowest total in the 141 games was 20, and he scored 20 or 21 only nine times. Six of those were exactly 20, all in 2025-26: against Houston on Jan. 15, Orlando on Feb. 3, Minnesota on March 15, Brooklyn on March 18, Utah on April 5 and the Clippers on April 8.

Free throws were a big part of the run. He averaged 9.0 attempts a game during the streak, and 24.8% of his points came at the line. Through two games this season he has six attempts. In his first two games last season he had 40: 14 in the double-overtime opener against Houston and 26 in his 55-point night against Indiana.

"As somebody that had 20 tonight, to know what it took to do that, and then to do that for 141 games… that one will be untouched for a while."@jdubwttp puts @shaiglalex's record-setting 20+ points streak, which ended tonight, into perspective 💯 pic.twitter.com/9UDqWQTNCo
— NBA (@NBA) October 23, 2026

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Jalen Williams, who led the Thunder with 21 on Thursday, said the record “will be untouched for a while.”

A cold night, and a cold first round

Thursday’s two games were brutal for shooters. Cleveland, Philadelphia, Denver and Oklahoma City went a combined 33-for-130 from three (25.4%). Nikola Jokić had 13 points on 5-for-19 shooting, so Gilgeous-Alexander and Jokić went a combined 11-for-38.

With all 30 teams now having played, the league is shooting 32.2% from three across the first 16 games. No full season has finished that low since 1990-91, when the league shot 32.0%. October shooting is always colder, though, so the fairer comparison is with the same 16-game opening round of recent seasons.

First 16 games, per team	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26	2026-27
Points	111.2	114.0	121.6	112.5
Three-point percentage	34.5%	34.4%	34.9%	32.2%
Threes made	12.1	12.9	12.7	11.4
Field-goal percentage	45.5%	45.4%	47.5%	45.1%
Turnovers	14.8	14.5	15.2	16.9
Personal fouls	20.3	21.3	25.0	24.2
Free-throw attempts	22.2	25.8	28.8	28.3

Two things stand out. The three-point percentage is the lowest of the four opening rounds by more than two points, and turnovers are the highest. Thirteen of the 32 team performances so far were under 30% from three.

The foul numbers look different in this light. Teams are averaging 24.2 fouls and 28.3 free-throw attempts, well above last season’s full averages of 19.9 and 23.5. But last season’s first 16 games had even more, 25.0 fouls and 28.8 attempts, and the whistle settled down as the season went on. In each of the last three seasons, the league also finished between 1.1 and 2.1 points better from three than it shot in the opening round.

Gilgeous-Alexander starts a new count on Sunday, when the Thunder host the Clippers at 7 p.m. ET (2 a.m. Monday in Cairo).