INDIANAPOLIS -- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander let out a long exhale as he sat down and leaned back in his chair in the postgame interview room Thursday night. The Oklahoma City Thunder had just finished their second straight double-overtime game to begin the season, something no other team in NBA history had ever done.

And for the second straight game, the Thunder pulled off the victory, outlasting the Indiana Pacers 141-135 in a rematch of last season's NBA Finals, which Oklahoma City won in an epic seven-game series in June.

"I'm tired, but it's expected," said Gilgeous-Alexander, who set a new career-high with 55 points. "It's a good way to break the ice on the season, shake the rust off, kind of bust the lungs up, get my cardio back."

Thunder coach Mark Daigneault had planned to lim

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