It took 63 years, but Wilt Chamberlain’s record for the longest consecutive 20-point scoring streak in NBA history finally has a new owner. On Thursday night, March 13, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder surpassed the legendary big man’s mark in front of a roaring home crowd at Paycom Center, scoring 35 points in a 104-102 victory over the Boston Celtics. With a faceup jumper just over seven minutes into the third quarter, SGA reached his 127th consecutive game with at least 20 points — one more than Chamberlain’s streak of 126, which had stood untouched since January 1963.
The milestone capped off one of the most remarkable stretches of individual consistency the sport has ever seen. Gilgeous-Alexander’s run began on November 1, 2024, and has carried through the entirety of the 2025-26 season without interruption. Over those 127 games, he has averaged 32.5 points per game on 53.5 percent shooting, amassing 85 games with at least 30 points, 18 with at least 40, and all five of his career 50-point performances. No other active player has come close to matching his pace. Kawhi Leonard holds the second-longest active streak in the league — at 43 games.
126 STRAIGHT 20+ POINT GAMES 🚨
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has tied Wilt Chamberlain’s all-time record! pic.twitter.com/Y9chBIJ33p
The record-setting performance against Boston was also a statement game in its own right. The Celtics entered Paycom Center as the second-best team in the Eastern Conference, winners of 14 of their last 18 games, and a team that knows exactly what it takes to win a championship. None of that slowed SGA down. He connected on an isolation midrange jumper to push the streak to 127 and helped the Thunder survive a tight game in the process, with Oklahoma City escaping with a two-point win.
It was the second consecutive defining performance for Gilgeous-Alexander in as many games. On Monday against the Denver Nuggets, he recorded 35 points, 15 assists, and nine rebounds without committing a single turnover to tie Chamberlain’s record at 126. With a tiebreaking stepback three-pointer in the final seconds and then a game-winner with six seconds remaining after Denver tied it up, SGA delivered the kind of performance that reduces a league-wide MVP debate to a formality. The Thunder won that game 129-126 and have not lost since his return from a mid-season abdominal strain.
To fully appreciate what SGA has done, context matters. Chamberlain, the only other player in league history to reach 100 consecutive 20-point games, averaged a staggering 49.2 points per game during his record streak. The records are separated by eras and are genuinely incomparable in raw terms. But they speak to the same underlying quality: an ability to produce scoring output every single night, no matter the opponent, the circumstances, or the stakes. Where Chamberlain was an immovable physical force, Gilgeous-Alexander achieves his consistency through an entirely different toolkit. He is elite in the midrange, suffocating off the dribble, capable of drawing fouls seemingly at will, and dangerous enough from three-point range that defenses cannot concede that option. As LeBron James noted earlier this season, stopping SGA requires keeping him off the free throw line — which, James observed, is very hard to do.
The team context makes the individual achievement even more remarkable. During SGA’s 127-game streak, the Thunder have posted a record of 102-24 in games he has appeared in. Oklahoma City currently leads the Western Conference at 52-15, a dominance built squarely around Gilgeous-Alexander’s nightly output and his ability to elevate everyone around him. His performance this season has already included a scoring title, a second straight MVP award, and a Finals MVP from last year’s championship run — the first in Thunder franchise history since the team relocated from Seattle.
At just 27 years old, Gilgeous-Alexander is nowhere near the ceiling of what he might accomplish. His name now sits atop one of the NBA’s oldest individual records, and with the scoring streak ongoing and no clear end in sight, the question is no longer whether he belongs in the conversation among the all-time greats. It is simply how high that conversation will eventually go.