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|[](/OKC) **97 – 89** [](/NOP)|
|**Box Scores: [NBA](http://www.nba.com/game/OKC-vs-NOP-0042300144/box-score) – [Yahoo](https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/scoreboard/)**|
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|**GAME SUMMARY**|
|**Location:** Smoothie King Center (18487), **Clock:** Final|
|**Officials:** Bill Kennedy, Ed Malloy, and Marat Kogut|
|**Team**|**Q1**|**Q2**|**Q3**|**Q4**|**Total**|
|:—|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|Oklahoma City Thunder|21|23|26|27|97|
|New Orleans Pelicans|21|22|28|18|89|
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|**TEAM STATS**|
|**Team**|**PTS**|**FG**|**FG%**|**3P**|**3P%**|**FT**|**FT%**|**OREB**|**TREB**|**AST**|**PF**|**STL**|**TO**|**BLK**|
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|Oklahoma City Thunder|97|35-82|42.7%|12-40|30.0%|15-24|62.5%|8|53|17|18|9|14|7|
|New Orleans Pelicans|89|32-85|37.6%|8-34|23.5%|17-20|85.0%|12|59|22|25|10|18|8|
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|**PLAYER STATS**|
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**[](/OKC) Oklahoma City Thunder**|**MIN**|**PTS**|**FGM-A**|**3PM-A**|**FTM-A**|**ORB**|**DRB**|**REB**|**AST**|**STL**|**BLK**|**TO**|**PF**|**±**|
|Luguentz Dort^SF|36:24|11|4-7|2-5|1-2|3|5|8|3|2|0|1|3|3|
|Jalen Williams^PF|37:48|24|9-17|2-6|4-5|1|7|8|4|2|1|3|2|14|
|Chet Holmgren^C|35:10|14|5-12|1-7|3-4|2|7|9|5|0|0|3|3|10|
|Josh Giddey^SG|29:28|14|5-10|4-6|0-0|0|3|3|1|0|1|1|2|12|
|Shai Gilgeous-Alexander^PG|40:25|24|8-21|1-4|7-13|1|9|10|2|0|2|2|4|7|
|Isaiah Joe|13:48|2|1-5|0-4|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|1|0|-4|
|Jaylin Williams|10:51|3|1-1|1-1|0-0|0|2|2|0|1|2|2|1|-4|
|Gordon Hayward|03:59|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|-1|
|Aaron Wiggins|16:22|5|2-7|1-5|0-0|1|1|2|2|2|1|0|2|-2|
|Cason Wallace|13:40|0|0-2|0-2|0-0|0|0|0|0|2|0|1|1|3|
|Kenrich Williams|02:02|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|2|
|Bismack Biyombo|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Ousmane Dieng|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Mike Muscala|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Lindy Waters III|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
**[](/NOP) New Orleans Pelicans**|**MIN**|**PTS**|**FGM-A**|**3PM-A**|**FTM-A**|**ORB**|**DRB**|**REB**|**AST**|**STL**|**BLK**|**TO**|**PF**|**±**|
|Brandon Ingram^SF|38:45|8|2-14|0-3|4-6|0|4|4|6|2|2|2|3|-3|
|Trey Murphy III^PF|42:48|7|3-10|1-7|0-0|0|11|11|3|1|2|4|4|-7|
|Jonas Valanciunas^C|25:47|19|6-15|0-1|7-8|6|7|13|1|1|0|3|4|-6|
|Herbert Jones^SG|33:49|11|4-11|1-3|2-2|2|2|4|4|2|1|3|5|-12|
|CJ McCollum^PG|37:28|20|9-16|2-7|0-0|1|5|6|2|1|1|3|4|-14|
|Naji Marshall|21:31|16|5-9|4-7|2-2|1|2|3|1|0|1|1|4|0|
|Larry Nance Jr.|21:25|6|2-4|0-2|2-2|2|4|6|1|0|0|0|1|-2|
|Jose Alvarado|14:43|2|1-4|0-3|0-0|0|2|2|4|3|1|2|0|4|
|Jordan Hawkins|03:43|0|0-2|0-1|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Dyson Daniels|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|E.J. Liddell|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Jeremiah Robinson-Earl|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Matt Ryan|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Cody Zeller|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Zion Williamson|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
by Nyhrox
33 Comments
The Zion-less Pelicans had as many wins as the superteam Suns.
J-Dub has soared up the player rankings. Before this series people would’ve said you were dumb if you said J-Dub was better than Ingram. BI will never be an all star again.
Dare I say—Josh Giddey made all difference down the stretch. The guy really came in clutch to help close this series out.
“When we do get back to the postseason, we want it to be an arrival and not an appearance.”
JDub is simply a dog
Josh Giddey is clutch
Shai dagger middy
Good times in OKC ⚡️
FIRST PLAYOFF SERIES WIN SINCE THE KEVIN DURANT ERA
[Radial Bracket Update](https://i.imgur.com/25AcRPK.png)
GALVESTON LOOK OUT
Are the Thunder the best worst #1 seed of all time?
Lu Dort played such impressive defense. All series long, all season long. Should be on a defense team tbh.
NOT AN APPEARANCE, AN ARRIVAL!
The Thunder future is so fucking bright
Jalen Williams is a star
Where the Giddey haters
So glad we don’t have to deal with Herb Jones anymore
Absolutely DISGUSTING game, glad that’s over. Thanks Dub and NOLA Giddey
Brandon Ingram legit lost himself tens of millions of dollars in this series
Not bad for the black eye of a 1 seed.
Love you New Orleans. Best food in the country
My god 4th quarter jdub in the playoffs is a different animal
Why did McCollum run off the floor in the third quarter? He just ran off the court after no contact. I am convinced he shit his pants.
Thunder and T’Wolves sweeping teams in the playoffs. What a timeline.
Maybe the real treasure was the “we lost game one by a bucket against the one seed without Zion. Hang the banner” we made along the way
HUGE game from J-Dub, Giddey and Dort.
They really stepped up with SGA and Chet having off games.
Thunder are deep.
GG Thunder knew there was no shot without Zion but jfc that was pathetic. Hope we get a rematch in the future with Z back and certain other players miles away from the roster
No more NBA TV for the Thunder!
That was a 2018 Jrue on Dame performance by Dort on Ingram this series. Ingram might as well have sat out with injury the whole series and it’d make no difference in the results each game
THANK YOU OKLAHOMA. IM SO GLAD THESE PATHETIC BUMS GOT EXPOSED. CARRIED THE WHOLE YEAR BY ZION AND 28% ON WIDE OPEN THREES. I CAN REST NOW AND BECOME A FULL TIME TIMBERWOLVES FAN UNTIL THE SEASON ENDS
The Pelicans never shot above even 29% from 3 during ANY game of the series.
Just a pathetic display of offense
Can we talk about OKC limiting NOLA to 92, 92, 85, and now 89 points in 4 games? That is WILD in 2024.
Dort had Ingram in HELL for 4 games wow
4th quarter Jdub and Giddy playing like Jordan and Pippen lmao
In the postgame handshake line, Larry Nance Jr. said “you are so fucking special” to Jalen Williams, and that made me happy. Nance knows ball.