Oklahoma City-Oklahoma City Thunder defeated Memphis Grizzleez 131-80 in Game 1 of its first round Western conference playoff series on Sunday, NBA Postsen’s fifth largest margin of victory in history.
The 51-point difference was shy seven points of records and NBA playoff was the biggest game 1 win in history.
Jalan Williams scored 20 points and Chet Holmagren had 19 points and 10 rebounds. The league scoring champion Shai Gilgus-Alexander scored just 15 runs with about 33 points per game. Thunder still shot 50.5% from the ground.
Oklahoma City, which ended the regular-season with the League-Best 68–14 record, saw every bit part of the overall number 1 seed.
There have been two 58-point playoff margins in the history of NBA: New Orleans 121-63 in 2009 and Miniapolis Lake defeated Danver in 1956 by beating St. Louis Hawks 133-75.
J Mornt scored 17 points on 6 -for -17 shooting for Memphis. Jaren Jackson Junior, who averaged over 22 points in the regular session, scored four points on 2 -for -13 shooting. Marin Bagle III also scored 17 runs, but Grizlies shot just 34.4% in total.
This was the first playoff game in the Memphis under the interim coach Tuomas Islo. He gave coaching only nine NBA regular-season games before the play-in game.
Los Angeles lases defeated Golden State 56 (126-70) in 1973 and Chicago Bulls defeated Milwauki Bux in 2015 by 54 (120-66). And now, the 51-point game-where Thunder kept it well in the second quarter. He took a lead of 35 points in Halftime.
The game is 2 Tuesday.
