SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 32 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to their seventh straight win and 60th of the season with a 121-105 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night.
Chet Holmgren added 18 points and 10 rebounds, and Alex Caruso scored 15 to give the NBA-leading Thunder their 14th win in 15 games.
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Oklahoma City Thunder center Isaiah Hartenstein (55) drives to the basket past Sacramento Kings forward Domantas Sabonis, left, and Keegan Murray during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Alex Caruso, left, lays the ball up over Sacramento Kings guard Markelle Fultz (20) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)
Sacramento Kings guard Markelle Fultz (20) is guarded by Oklahoma City Thunder forward Jaylin Williams (6) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)
Sacramento Kings forward Jake LaRavia (33) is guarded by Oklahoma City Thunder forward Chet Holmgren (7) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)
Oklahoma City Thunder forward Chet Holmgren (7) is guarded by Sacramento Kings forward Keegan Murray during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2) drives past Sacramento Kings guard Zach LaVine, left, and Domantas Sabonis during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2) is guarded by Sacramento Kings guard Keon Ellis, left, and Domantas Sabonis during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)
Keegan Murray scored 28 points with nine 3-pointers and Zach LaVine added 19 to lead the Kings. Sacramento has dropped four straight games.
The Thunder broke out to a big lead in the first half that grew to 24 points. The Kings scored 16 straight early in the third quarter to get the deficit back into single digits but were never able to get closer than six the rest of the way.
Oklahoma City then pulled away in a dominant fourth quarter.
Thunder: Oklahoma City is the first NBA team to 60 wins this season and it matched the 2012-13 team for the most wins for the club since leaving Seattle following the 2007-08 season. The franchise record for wins is 64 in 1995-96.
Kings: Sacramento fell to 2-4 on a seven-game homestand and is in serious danger of missing the play-in tournament. The Kings fell into a tie with Phoenix for ninth place in the Western Conference and have only a half-game lead over Dallas for the final play-in spot.
The Thunder opened the second quarter with a 14-4 run to take a 20-point lead and were never seriously threatened after that.
Oklahoma City made 12 of 21 attempts from 3-point range in the first half, with eight players draining at least one from long range.
The Kings finish their homestand Thursday night against Portland. The Thunder return home to face Memphis on Thursday.
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Oklahoma City Thunder center Isaiah Hartenstein (55) drives to the basket past Sacramento Kings forward Domantas Sabonis, left, and Keegan Murray during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Alex Caruso, left, lays the ball up over Sacramento Kings guard Markelle Fultz (20) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)
Sacramento Kings guard Markelle Fultz (20) is guarded by Oklahoma City Thunder forward Jaylin Williams (6) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)
Sacramento Kings forward Jake LaRavia (33) is guarded by Oklahoma City Thunder forward Chet Holmgren (7) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)
Oklahoma City Thunder forward Chet Holmgren (7) is guarded by Sacramento Kings forward Keegan Murray during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2) drives past Sacramento Kings guard Zach LaVine, left, and Domantas Sabonis during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2) is guarded by Sacramento Kings guard Keon Ellis, left, and Domantas Sabonis during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Randall Benton)
BANGKOK (AP) — The death toll from Myanmar's powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake keeps climbing amid rescue efforts.
The military government said Saturday that 1,644 people have been killed, with thousands of others injured and dozens missing.
The earthquake struck midday Friday, followed by several aftershocks, including one that measured 6.4.
In Thailand, the quake rocked the greater Bangkok area, leaving 10 people dead.
Several countries, including Malaysia, Russia and China have dispatched rescue and relief teams.
Here is the latest:
Myanmar’s ruling military said on state television that the confirmed death toll from the 7.7 magnitude earthquake increased to 1,644.
The new total is a sharp rise compared to the 1,002 total announced just hours earlier. The number of injured increased to 3,408, while the missing figure rose to 139 from Friday's quake.
Russia has sent a medical team to Myanmar to care for earthquake victims, a Health Ministry official said.
According to Alexey Kuznetsov, the medics include specialists in infectious diseases, resuscitation and traumatology.
Separately, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said that two planes carrying Russian rescue workers have landed in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon.
Earlier, the ministry reported that a mission, including search and rescue teams, canine units, anaesthesiologists and psychologists, was on its way to the disaster-stricken country.
The ministry said that its rescue teams are equipped with “endoscopes and acoustic devices for searching for people in rubble up to 4.5 meters (nearly 15 feet) deep, as well as ground-penetrating radars and thermal imagers.”
Hong Kong sent a group of 51 search-and-rescue personnel to help with earthquake relief efforts in Myanmar. The group includes firefighters and ambulance personnel as well as two search-and-rescue dogs, among others.
The group brings along nine tons (18,000 pounds) of equipment including life detectors and masonry cutting machines, as well as an automatic satellite tracking antenna system that provides network connection, according to a statement on the Hong Kong government’s website.
Satellite photos from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by The Associated Press show the earthquake toppled the air traffic control tower at Naypyitaw International Airport.
The photos taken Saturday show the tower toppled over as if sheered from its base. Debris lay scattered from the top of the tower, which controlled all air traffic in the capital of Myanmar.
It wasn’t immediately clear if there had been any injuries in the collapse, though the tower would have had staff inside of it at the time of the earthquake Friday. It likely also stopped air traffic into the international airport, given all electronics and radar would have been routed into the tower for controllers.
Flights carrying rescue teams from China have landed at the airport in Yangon instead of going directly to the airports in the major stricken cities of Mandalay and Naypyitaw.
A spokesperson for the China International Development Cooperation Agency said that Beijing will provide Myanmar with 100 million yuan ($13.8 million) in emergency humanitarian aid for earthquake relief efforts.
An additional rescue team of 82 people left Bejing, hours after a different team of emergency responders from the Chinese province of Yunnan, bordering Myanmar, arrived in the earthquake-stricken country.
Additionally, 16 members of the Chinese civil relief squad Blue Sky Rescue Team in the city of Ruili, Yunnan, departed to Muse City in northern Myanmar to help with relief efforts, according to state broadcaster CGTN. Chinese authorities also sent a first batch of 80 tents and 290 blankets.
Meanwhile, Chinese President Xi Jinping extended condolences to Myanmar’s leader Min Aung Hlaing.
The earthquake was felt in parts of China's Yunnan province, though casualties were limited. Two people in Ruili suffered minor injuries and 847 homes were damaged, according to authorities. Some high-rise buildings and older houses in urban areas were also partially damaged, but power and water supplies and transportation and communications lines have been restored.
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters says that his government will support relief efforts “via the International Red Cross Movement."
“Our thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones, and to everyone else affected,” Peters posted on X.
South Korea will send the aid through international organizations to support recovery efforts following the recent earthquake.
The Foreign Ministry stated on Saturday that Seoul will closely monitor the situation and consider additional support if needed.
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese rescuers arrive at the Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar on Saturday, March 29, 2025. (Haymhan Aung/Xinhua via AP)
In this photo taken from video released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on Saturday, March 29, 2025, Russian Emergency Ministry employees gather to board one of two planes with rescuers to Myanmar following Friday's earthquake, from a Moscow airfield, Russia. (Russia Emergency Ministry press service via AP)
Rescuers walk past the ruin of a high-rise building under construction that collapsed after a strong earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)
People stand near a damaged construction site of a high-rise building in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, March 29, 2025, as rescuers search for victims following its collapse after Friday's earthquake. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Rescuers search for victims at the site of a high-rise building under construction that collapsed after a strong earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, early Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)
Rescue workers help an injured women who was trapped under a building Friday, March 28, 2025, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
In this image provided by The Myanmar Military True News Information Team, Myanmar's military leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, center, inspects damaged road caused by an earthquake Friday, March 28, 2025, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (The Myanmar Military True News Information Team via AP)
Rescuers search for victims at the site of a high-rise building under construction that collapsed after a strong earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, early Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)
Patients are evacuated outdoors at a hospital after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Tadchakorn Kitchaiphon)
Rescue workers take an injured man who was trapped under a building Friday, March 28, 2025, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
People wait at the damaged construction site of a high-rise building in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, March 29, 2025, as rescuers search for victims following its collapse after an earthquake. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)
Relatives of workers of a high-rise building under construction that collapsed after a strong earthquake wait as rescuers search for victims, in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Rescuers work at the site a high-rise building under construction that collapsed after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, early Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)
Volunteers look for survivors near a damaged building Friday, March 28, 2025, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
In this image provided by The Myanmar Military True News Information Team, victims caused by an earthquake is seen compound of government hospital Friday, March 28, 2025, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (The Myanmar Military True News Information Team via AP)
