Cavs rally to beat Blazers in OT for tenth straight NBA victory
The Cleveland Cavaliers erased an 18-point deficit to beat the Portland Path Blazers 133-129 in an NBA extra time thriller and increase their league-best document with a tenth straight victory Sunday, as Boston defeated Denver in a conflict of the previous two champions.
De’Andre Hunter, getting a beginning nod as Cavs star Donovan Mitchell rested, scored 18 of his game-high 32 factors within the fourth quarter and extra time as Cleveland poured it on late to seize their fiftieth win of the season towards 10 defeats.
“Made open pictures, tried to get to the rim and get fouled,” Hunter mentioned of his late-game heroics, which noticed him give Cleveland the lead for good with a three-pointer that put them up 131-129 with 30.8 seconds remaining in extra time.
Hunter, acquired from Atlanta on the commerce deadline, then got here up with a steal and grabbed a rebound when Portland’s Deni Avdija missed a three-pointer. Lastly Hunter drilled a pair of free-throws to seal the win.
“He carried us in each method,” Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson mentioned. “No method we get this win with out him.”
Avdija led Portland with 30 factors and added 12 rebounds and 10 assists for his first profession triple-double. Anfernee Simons scored 27 factors for the Blazers, who led many of the first half in pursuit of a fifth straight win.
After Cleveland edged forward 42-39 on Darius Garland’s soar shot, Portland closed the primary half on a 15-0 scoring run that despatched them into the locker room main 54-42.
The Cavs pulled stage at 101-101 with 5:43 left within the fourth quarter, they usually traded the lead three extra occasions earlier than Simons made a pair of free-throws that tied it at 119-119 to ship it to extra time.
In Boston, the Celtics let a giant lead get away earlier than holding off the Nuggets 110-103.
Jaylen Brown scored 22 factors and handed out eight assists to guide the reigning champion Celtics, who led by as many as 20 factors within the third quarter just for Denver to drag inside three factors within the waning minutes.
Jamal Murray scored 13 of his 26 factors within the fourth quarter to key the comeback, his driving layup off a rebound of a Brown miss pulling the Nuggets inside 102-99 with 1:15 remaining.
NBA Most dear Participant Nikola Jokic scored 20 factors with 14 rebounds and 9 assists for the 2023 champion Nuggets, however the Celtics got here up with the pictures once they wanted them to snap a two-game skid.
The Los Angeles Lakers led all the best way in a 108-102 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers, their sixth straight victory pushing them a hair forward of the Nuggets for second place within the Western Convention.
Luka Doncic scored 29 factors and Lakers famous person LeBron James, the league’s all-time main scorer and the primary to succeed in 40,000 regular-season factors, scored 17 and is one level shy of turning into the primary to attain 50,000 factors within the regular-season and playoffs mixed.
Jalen Williams scored a career-high 41 factors to gasoline Western Convention leaders Oklahoma Metropolis in a 146-132 victory over the San Antonio Spurs.
Rookie Stephon Fort scored 32 factors to guide the Spurs, who led at halftime however could not maintain tempo after the break.
Williams mentioned Oklahoma Metropolis’s defensive resolve was fortified by a third-quarter altercation between Thunder reserve Kenrich Williams and San Antonio’s Julian Champagnie that noticed each gamers ejected together with the Thunder’s Luguentz Dort.
New York’s Jalen Brunson scored 31 factors together with the go-ahead three-pointer with 2:27 left in extra time to assist the Knicks erase a 19-point deficit and beat the Warmth 116-112 in Miami.
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