Jimmy Butler scored 14 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter, including 10 straight to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 106-94 win over the Cavs.
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LeBron James scored 26 points while playing with a case of the flu that’s been going around the team, and the short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers rallied for a 90-82 win over the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night.
One of the few bright spots on the Mavericks this season, Williams put up 15.1 points and 7.9 assists through 17 December games.
Butler scored 10 successive points – half of his match total – in a decisive stretch in the fourth quarter to down the injury-hit Cavs. James scored on the charge, but the basket was waived off.
Kevin Love’s 2017 hasn’t gotten off to a good start.
James scored 17 of his 32 points in the first quarter, and the Cavaliers beat the Charlotte Hornets, 121-109, on Saturday night (Saturday, Manila time). Davis had a ridiculous 50 points, 15 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 steals, and 4 blocks in his very first game of the season against Denver, while Westbrook went for a 51-13-10 trip-dub in just Game No. 2 against Phoenix. After the game, Cavs coach Tyronn Lue casually mentioned that Love had been so sick he’d lost “10 pounds”.
“I know I was gonna have to do that in fourth anyways”, Butler said.
“If they play well, it’ll be hard for anybody in the East to beat them four times”, the Charlotte coach said.
Nationally televised games involving LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, Dwyane Wade and Jimmy Butler are pretty fun and this should be an entertaining battle.
Neither team announced they were playing until close to tip-off, and both announcements came within minutes of the other. They are in first place in the East and lead the No. 2 Toronto Raptors, who they’re 3-0 against, by three games.
LeBron James wears the “Hardwood Classic” Nike LeBron 14 during the January 4 game against the Chicago Bulls. “MVP!” from an ecstatic United Center crowd.
James also left the locker room Monday with a baggie full of medicine and admitted he wasn’t feeling well as the flu continues to rip through the National Basketball Association. Felder acknowledged that night gave him a confidence boost and reminded him he can play at this level. “So the cards are in my favor, for now”.
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“He was so positive in the huddles, continuing to talk about getting the bigs the ball”, Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg said, noting the contributions of Robin Lopez in the third as he had a couple buckets to stabilize things. “He’s done a little bit of everything”.
