In the Thunder's 140-127 loss to Denver on Monday — which split the teams' two-game series in Oklahoma City after the Thunder's 127-103 victory on Sunday — Daigneault deployed a new plan to slow down Jokic's habit of quickly inbounding the ball to jumpstart the Nuggets offense.

Expert recap and game analysis of the Denver Nuggets vs. Oklahoma City Thunder NBA game from March 10, 2025 on ESPN.

It will feel like a playoff atmosphere as the Western Conference-leading Oklahoma City Thunder host the Denver Nuggets, in a rare home back-to-back.

For live updates and highlights from the Thunder's game against the Nuggets, regularly check back to this post: Final: Nuggets 140, Thunder 127. The Nuggets showed out. 140 points

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 40 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to their seventh consecutive victory, a 127-103 rout over the visiting Denver Nuggets on Sunday. It was the first of back-to-back games in Oklahoma City for the teams that entered the day in the top two spots in the Western Conference.