Oklahoma City hosted a shorthanded Memphis team without Ja Morant and, despite its own own deep rotation absences, still turned the night into a stress test the Grizzlies couldn’t survive. The Thunder forced chaos, survived size mismatches, and rode Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to a win that pushed them to 26-3 ahead of a Christmas mini-series with San Antonio.
Final: Thunder (26-3) def. Grizzlies (13-16), 119-103
- If you follow the NBA on Twitter (someone please make me stop), you’d think Chris Finch’s recent ejection cracked open the officiating matrix itself. Finally—per the internet—someone
threw a hissy fitprotested loudly enough that refs might start calling fouls on the Thunder.