The Cavaliers won the game 121-115.
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The fact the Wizards also screened an ill-conceived in-house promotional video in which fans dressed in Cavaliers jerseys said Wall should start over Irving in the All-Star Game next month – a nod to Wall’s comments late last month that Irving’s superior vote total, despite his injury, was a “joke” – undoubtedly provided a little extra fire, though Irving downplayed it after the game.
“At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how many games Kyrie plays … he’s an all-star player”, James said, referring to Wall’s comment. Much better than an All-Star.
The Cleveland Cavaliers (23-9) are coming form a 122-100 win over the Toronto Raptors on Monday. “It’s only reasonable to expect that he’s going to go through a process and still have days when he’s better and days when he’s going to have some effect of the many months that he was out”. “But that sure didn’t look like that tonight”.
Kyrie Irving stepped into a 3-pointer from 30 feet away and sank it. Later, he spun past two defenders and Euro-stepped his way to the basket early in the fourth quarter.
His fourth-quarter performance certainly caught the attention of his teammates, who see how much Irving is improving in the weeks since he returned.
The Cavs were led by Kyrie Irving who scored 25 pts and J.R. Smith who had 24.
The first few games were just being able to solidify myself back in the league and being an elite athlete and get around guards. So it wasn’t the Cavs’ finest defensive effort of the season – but in the second half, it was pretty doggone good.
But the Wizards have a deadly marksman of their own in Jared Dudley, who comes into Wednesday’s contest as the NBA’s 5th ranked shooter from beyond the arc (one spot above Curry and two spots above Delly). “From that point on, we became good friends – good friends with Devon and good friends with Leah”.
James helped stake the Cavaliers to an 18-point lead by hitting all four of his 3-pointers less than four minutes into the third quarter. Following a Toronto timeout, he drove and dished to Timofey Mozgov for a dunk to put the Cavs up 14, then assisted on an Iman Shumpert 3-pointer that made it a 17-point game.
“Isn’t that the lovely thing about NBA basketball?” “That wasn’t an easy game”.
She’s celebrating being cancer-free, and her dad just got a new National Football League contract.
Even though I don’t think it will be easy, mainly because of the depth of the east this year, I expect the Cavs to return to the finals this year with the Spurs, Warriors or Thunder waiting on them. The second stop on Cleveland’s six-game road trip takes place Friday at the Minnesota Timberwolves….
“Sometimes desperation leads to wondrous thinking”, Blatt said.
Going into the second quarter the Cavaliers were down 26-24, but LeBron James would start to put his stamp on the game and give Cleveland complete control.
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The Clippers won their seventh straight game despite the absence of Blake Griffin, who has missed six games because of a partially torn left quadreiceps tendon.
