De’Aaron Fox continued his streak of 30-point games to extend his Sacramentoera franchise record and the Kings beat the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday to win their third consecutive game since the All-Star break.

The Kings withstood a series of punches from Oklahoma City in the second and third quarters and utilized a lineup they’ve tried scarcely all season to close out a 124-115 victory. Then they hurried back to their nearby hotel amid tornado sirens as the Oklahoma City area awaited a storm that has impacted much of the western United States.

But the Kings didn’t leave the Paycom Center without one of their loudest locker room celebrations to date.

They had to recognize legendary radio play-by-play announcer Gary Gerould, who called his 3,000th game Sunday. The Kings gave Gerould the coveted defensive player of the game chain, and the necessary purple laser and fog show that accompanied all other victories this season.

Head coach Mike Brown was asked after the game if rookie Keegan Murray earned the chain thanks to his team-leading three steals. Brown went into deadpan mode.

“On defense, my No. 1 staple is communication,” Brown said. “Communication is a huge, huge, huge staple of mine. So the guy that communicated the most within our organization is G-Man, so G-Man got the defensive player chain tonight. He’s communicated for 3,000 games for us. That’s an unprecedented mark, so he definitely deserved the defensive player of the game tonight.”

Gerould did his first Kings’ game in 1985 and has been the radio voice of the team through the thick and thin. He’s one of the most cherished members of the organization and has been at his post for 38 seasons.

“It was mind blowing,” Gerould told The Sacramento Bee as he was being informed team buses were leaving quickly to avoid the incoming storm. “Communication’s important on defense so I get the defensive player of the game chain draped around me. ... It just absolutely blew my mind.”

The team gave Gerould a custom “G-Man” jersey — No. 3,000 — and a ball autographed by each player. His eyes welled up when asked about the gestures from a team that is on track to end its 16-year playoff drought.

“I’m blessed,” he said. “I’m just so thankful that I have the opportunity to do what I do. And I’m so fortunate that I have my health. I still have a passion for this game and an organization that shows their support. You can’t put in words what that means, but it’s extraordinarily special.”

Guard Malik Monk, a key member of all the team’s postgame celebrations, played in his 375th career game on Sunday, meaning the six-year veteran’s career has been 12.5% as long as Gerould’s.

“It’s crazy about 3,000 games,” Monk said. “I don’t think that many people call that many games or even see that many NBA games. To watch and call 3,000, I can’t even imagine that, man. He was probably calling them before I was even thought of. ... That’s a big accomplishment.”

On the court, Fox finished with 33 points on 11-of-19 shooting, his seventh consecutive 30-point game. Murray added 20 points in one of his best all-around games to date, and Domantas Sabonis flirted with his eighth triple-double of the season by recording 14 points, 15 rebounds and eight assists against the team that drafted him.

The Kings jumped out to a 10-point lead after the first quarter, getting out to an energetic start following Friday’s whirlwind doubleovertime victory against the Clippers. It proved vital because the Thunder outscored Sacramento 64-58 in the second and third quarters, but the Kings finished the game with force while getting 10 points from Trey Lyles, who hit a pair of 3-pointers en route to a 30-25 advantage in the fourth.

“At times we start slow in situations like this,” Brown said. “It was good to see our starters go out there and kinda establish themselves and set the tone. We needed every ounce of it as the game went along because it kinda held them at bay initially.”

The Thunder made the game close in the third quarter while hitting eight of 12 from 3-point range, with Isaiah Joe and Luguentz Dort combining for 22 of the team’s 40 points in the period.

But the Kings responded by going 6 of 11 from distance in the fourth. Lyles, Monk and Terence Davis combined to make nine 3s off the bench while Harrison Barnes, Kevin Huerter and Fox combined to go 5 of 18.

Said Brown: “Again, an emotional game against the Clippers, change of time zones by a couple hours, got up for early morning shootaround today, so (it’s good) when you have guys that can step up and bring something to the group. We got it. We had energy from the bench, but, just as importantly, we got some timely shots, especially from the 3-point line, starting with Trey and Malik.”

The Thunder were missing their top scorer in All-Star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and lacked a traditionalsized center throughout the game. Yet they entered the third quarter tied in the rebounding battle at 32. The Kings decided to go with a big lineup late and outrebounded the Thunder 16-5 in the fourth while getting eight second-chance points.

Brown went with a lineup of Fox, three forwards and Sabonis. The group of Barnes, Lyles, Murray, Fox and Sabonis had been on the floor together for a total of three minutes before Sunday. Brown went to the big lineup for a significant portion of the fourth quarter, including from the 4:26 mark until the game was in hand inside the final minute.

Brown said he used the lineup because Lyles was playing well and he needed Barnes to matchup with Dort’s strength to barrel through defenders.

“And with the way Keegan was playing on both ends of the floor, he warranted the ability to stay out there, too,” Brown said.

The Kings (35-25) remain in the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference with the win, 1 ½ games behind the Memphis Grizzlies. They’ll play the Thunder in Oklahoma City again on Tuesday before heading home for another game against the Clippers on Friday at Golden 1 Center.