Apr 9, 2026 3 min read thunder recap

Thunder Wrap Historic Season Early

Brandon Rahbar's recap of the win against the Clippers.

PHOTO⚡THUNDER

Final: Thunder def. Clippers 128-110

Box Score | Play-by-Play

Nuggets and Notes

The Oklahoma City Thunder clinched the #1 overall seed in the NBA. The defending champs will have homecourt advantage throughout the playoffs.
Not that there should've been any doubt left whatsoever, but OKC also clinched the back to back MVP trophy for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
That's 7 straight wins for OKC.
And 8 straight wins over the Clippers.
The Thunder stormed out of the gates with focus and force. Swarming defense. It was clear from the jump OKC wanted to clinch the #1 seed and finish their regular season tonight.
Chet Holmgren had a career night. In the first five minutes, Chet had 14 points on 3-4 shooting. The Clippers had 9 points on 4-11 shooting up to that point.
Holmgren's final line: 30 points (one shy of his season high), 14 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 4 blocks. He shot 10-13 from the field and 3-4 from 3.
Sorry, back to back MVP SGA. Apologies, fringe First Team All-NBA Kawhi. Forgive me, recovering All-NBA/All-Defense JDub. But Chet went wire to wire as the best player on both sides of the court.
Jalen Williams returning to this offense and applying so much pressure at the rim along with his playmaking and elite defense takes OKC to a whole other level.
Holmgren is going to be All-Defense First Team. He's going to finish top-two in DPOY voting. And he should make All-NBA Third Team.
That's back to back nights that Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 5 assists in the first quarter.
SGA has missed 38 fourth quarters (sat out 26, missed 12 due to injury), but SGA leads the NBA in clutch scoring.
SGA took one (1x) free throw against the Clippers. He has 12 total free throws in his last four games combined. Some free throw merchant.
Shai has scored 20+ points for the 140th straight game. If tonight was his last game of the season, SGA is a perfect 68 for 68.
Thunder versus Clippers featured the two players with the longest 20 point streaks in the NBA. To put the gap between the streaks into perspective: If Kawhi scored 20 points every game the rest of this season and all of next season…

…he’d tie SGA’s streak the final game of 2027.
Isaiah Joe could be an X factor for OKC in the playoffs. What a weapon off the bench.
Joe had 21 points and hit 4-7 from deep. He is now 18-28 from 3 in his last four games. Strokin' Joe is shooting a career high 42.3 3PT%.
Hoping to see Nikola Topic play 30 minutes versus the Nuggets on Friday night. Go Nuggets?