Throughout its 111-104 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Friday in Recreation 4 of the NBA Finals, Oklahoma Metropolis turned the highest-scoring workforce in league historical past, eclipsing a document the Golden State Warriors held for six years.
The scoring document takes into consideration each regular-season and playoff video games. And technically, the Thunder would have damaged the document on Wednesday if their look within the NBA Cup championship recreation, which is taken into account an exhibition, counted in any league totals.
However now, irrespective of how one counts, it belongs to the Thunder. They got here into Recreation 4 of the NBA Finals towards the Indiana Pacers needing 68 factors for the document and obtained it on a free throw by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander with 6:09 left within the third quarter on Friday evening.
That gave the Thunder 12,162 factors, breaking the mark of 12,161 scored by the Warriors in 104 video games through the 2018-19 season. Friday’s recreation was the 102nd official contest for the Thunder. (They scored 81 factors within the NBA Cup championship recreation loss to Milwaukee in December, a degree whole and end result that doesn’t issue into any season stats.)
In 2018-19, the Warriors compiled a 57-25 common season document and a 14-8 playoff document, advancing to the Finals earlier than shedding to the Toronto Raptors in six video games.
For the Warriors through the 2018-19 common season, Kevin Durant had a team-leading 2,027 factors in 78 video games adopted by 1,881 factors for Steph Curry in 68 video games and 1,680 factors in 78 video games for Klay Thompson. Within the playoffs, Curry led the Warriors with 620 factors in 22 video games, adopted by 435 for Thompson in 21 video games.
Durant had 387 factors in 12 video games. He missed 9 video games after he suffered a proper calf pressure throughout Recreation 5 of the Western Convention Semifinals towards the Houston Rockets, then noticed his season finish with a torn Achilles throughout Recreation 5 of the Finals.
The NBA total-points document is the most recent entry on a history-making season for the Thunder, who set a franchise document with 68 regular-season wins and — in the event that they win the NBA title — would grow to be the fourth workforce in league historical past to put up a minimum of 84 victories in a full season.
Solely the Golden State Warriors (88 wins in 2015-16), Chicago Bulls (87 in 1995-96), and the Bulls once more (84 in 1996-97) have reached 84 wins in a single season.
The season’s longevity, in fact, influences the full factors mark. The Thunder have been solely fourth in factors per recreation through the common season behind Cleveland, Memphis, and Denver, and when including in playoffs, Oklahoma Metropolis’s scoring common this season was solely twenty seventh in NBA historical past.
Initially Printed: June 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM PDT
