The Cleveland Cavaliers continued their perfect start to the NBA season in sensational style on Friday, seizing a 41-point halftime lead on the way to a 136-117 rout of the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n
The Cavs improved to 10-0, ending the Warriors\u2019 five-game winning streak and handing them their first road defeat of the season.<\/p>\n
The damage was done early, the Cavs\u2019 83 first-half points tying a franchise record for most scored in any half and their 41-point halftime lead the biggest in team history.<\/p>\n
Against the Warriors\u2019 second-ranked defense, the Cavs posted their fifth game of the young season with at least 130 points.<\/p>\n
That ties a team record for the most 130-plus point games for an entire season.<\/p>\n
\u201cTen-0 is a magic number,\u201d Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson said. \u201cWe\u2019re playing really good basketball and I\u2019m just really pleased where the group is.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was worried about tonight \u2014 they\u2019re 7-1 and rolling and they\u2019re coming in here, they\u2019re champions and they\u2019re going to try and knock our block off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Darius Garland scored 27 points, Evan Mobley added 23 and Ty Jerome chipped in 20 off the bench as six Cavs players scored in double figures against a Warriors defense that came in ranked second in the league.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, they kept the potentially explosive Warriors offense in check, opening the game on a 20-2 scoring run.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way we came out tonight \u2014 that surprised me, how ready we were, how hungry we were,\u201d Atkinson said.<\/p>\n
Andrew Wiggins with nine points and Stephen Curry with seven were the only Warriors starters to score before the break.<\/p>\n
Golden State were able to adjust after the break, out-scoring the Cavs 41-29 in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst half, can\u2019t play much better than that,\u201d Atkinson said. \u201cBut second half, way we came out, they scored 13 points in the first three minutes. It was a little frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Warriors, however, were in too deep a hole.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Kuminga led Golden State with 21 points off the bench, Curry finished with 12 on five-of-10 shooting, making just one from three-point range.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to execute better,\u201d Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. \u201cThirteen turnovers in the first half \u2014 we were completely disorganized.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Celtics edge Nets \u2013<\/strong> In Detroit, Cade Cunningham drove for the go-ahead basket with 8.5 seconds left to play in the Pistons\u2019 122-121 victory over Atlanta, then sealed the victory with a block on a driving Onyeka Okongwu.<\/p>\n Cunningham finished with a triple-double of 22 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists with a steal and the game-saving block.<\/p>\n Jusuf Nurkic\u2019s free throw with eight-tenths of a second remaining lifted the Phoenix Suns to a 114-113 victory over the Mavericks in Dallas.<\/p>\n Kevin Durant scored 26 points and Nurkic added 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Suns, who notched a seventh straight victory to improve to 8-1.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been fun,\u201d Durant said of the Suns start. \u201c(It has) definitely been nerve-wracking with the tight games we\u2019ve been in, but I think that\u2019s great for our team to understand what it\u2019s like in crunch time.\u201d<\/p>\n Luka Doncic scored 30 points and Kyrie Irving added 29 for Dallas, who have now lost twice this season to Phoenix.<\/p>\n In New York, Karl-Anthony Towns scored 32 points for the Knicks, who led by as many as 30 in a 116-94 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 24 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for Milwaukee, who trailed all the way.<\/p>\n The post Cleveland Cavaliers\u00a0ride huge first half to crushing win over Warriors<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Cleveland Cavaliers\u00a0ride huge first half to crushing win over Warriors<\/a> appeared first on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Cleveland Cavaliers continued their perfect start to the NBA season in sensational style on Friday, seizing a 41-point halftime lead on the way to a 136-117 rout of the Golden State Warriors. The Cavs improved to 10-0, ending the Warriors\u2019 five-game winning streak and handing them their first road defeat of the season. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn Boston, Jayson Tatum scored 33 points to lead the Celtics in a 107-102 overtime victory over the Brooklyn Nets, who led by as many as 14 in the first half and didn\u2019t surrender the lead until the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n