On a night the Thunder received their championship rings, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander finished in style by hitting two free throws to lift OKC to a 125-124 double-overtime win over the Rockets.

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Almost four months after they won the 2025 NBA championship, the Oklahoma City Thunder held a pregame ceremony. Per tradition, they had the first game of the 2025-26 regular season on Opening Night. The Thunder handed out their championship rings to Clay Bennett,

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It was a tiny Sawyer, his middle child, held up to the glass at TD Garden, her hand outstretched to meet his, wearing her pint-sized Boston Bruins jersey. That was what wrecked Marchand, what undid his valiant efforts to keep it all in,

Sidney Crosby became Pittsburgh's career leader in combined regular-season and playoff points by scoring one of his team's three goals spanning 3:08 of the second period, and the host Penguins topped the Vancouver Canucks 5-1 on Tuesday.

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In his debut with Houston on Tuesday, Kevin Durant blamed himself for the Rockets' 125-124, double-overtime loss to the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder at Paycom Center, telling reporters that he made "two plays" that were "the reason we lost.