Cleveland Cavaliers @ Denver Nuggets

21-9, 8-8 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Cavaliers CLE	26	27	19	21	93
Nuggets DEN	21	21	20	25	87

Denver NuggetsNuggetsDEN

12-20, 5-10 Home

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
LeBron JamesL. James#23
Kevin LoveK. Love#0
Tristan ThompsonT. Thompson#13
JR SmithJ. Smith#5
Matthew DellavedovaM. Dellavedova#8
bench
Richard JeffersonR. Jefferson#24
Timofey MozgovT. Mozgov#20
Mo WilliamsM. Williams#52
James JonesJ. Jones#1
Iman ShumpertI. Shumpert#4
Jared CunninghamJ. Cunningham#9
Anderson VarejaoA. Varejao#17
Sasha KaunS. Kaun#14
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
34	34	13-24	1-3	7-8	6	2	5	2	1	3	3	2	+3
36	8	4-16	0-5	0-2	14	1	1	2	0	1	13	2	+16
35	9	4-7	0-0	1-6	7	0	0	1	1	2	5	1	+4
26	11	4-11	1-6	2-2	2	3	0	2	0	0	2	1	+5
29	4	1-5	0-1	2-2	7	5	2	2	0	1	6	2	+16
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
13	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	-4
15	4	2-5	0-1	0-0	4	0	1	0	0	1	3	4	-3
19	7	3-4	0-0	1-2	1	4	3	1	0	0	1	2	-10
0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+2
31	16	7-13	2-5	0-0	3	2	0	2	0	1	2	1	-1
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+2
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	93	38-86	4-22	13-22	44	17	12	12	3	9	35	16
		44%	18%	59%

Denver Nuggets

starters
Kenneth FariedK. Faried#35
Joffrey LauvergneJ. Lauvergne#77
Kostas PapanikolaouK. Papanikolaou#16
Jameer NelsonJ. Nelson#1
Gary HarrisG. Harris#14
bench
Darrell ArthurD. Arthur#00
Nikola JokicN. Jokic#15
Mike MillerM. Miller#3
Randy FoyeR. Foye#4
Will BartonW. Barton#5
JJ HicksonJ. Hickson#7
Jusuf NurkicJ. Nurkic#23
Emmanuel MudiayE. Mudiay#0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
28	9	4-8	0-0	1-2	8	0	0	1	0	3	5	3	+1
24	14	7-12	0-2	0-0	7	3	4	1	0	3	4	1	-15
22	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	5	1	2	0	0	1	4	2	-8
24	0	0-6	0-1	0-0	4	8	1	1	1	0	4	2	-9
33	12	5-13	1-6	1-2	7	2	2	2	0	1	6	2	+1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
20	6	3-6	0-1	0-0	3	0	1	1	2	1	2	1	-7
22	10	4-11	0-0	2-3	7	1	2	1	1	2	5	6	+4
7	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	-1
25	7	3-9	1-3	0-0	3	2	1	1	0	0	3	2	+3
34	29	11-20	3-8	4-4	7	1	3	0	2	0	7	0	+1
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	87	37-89	5-24	8-11	52	18	18	8	6	12	40	19
		42%	21%	73%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Matchups

CLE

CLE leads season

1-0

DEN

Game 1@ DEN

Final

124

Game 2@ CLE

Final

Game Information

Denver, CO

Referee:Derrick Stafford

Referee:James Williams

Referee:Kevin Cutler

Eastern Conference

Central	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Detroit	60	22	.732	-	W3
Cleveland	52	30	.634	8	W1
Milwaukee	32	50	.390	28	L1
Chicago	31	51	.378	29	L2
Indiana	19	63	.232	41	L2

Western Conference

Northwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	64	18	.780	-	L2
Denver	54	28	.659	10	W12
Minnesota	49	33	.598	15	W2
Portland	42	40	.512	22	W2
Utah	22	60	.268	42	L1

NBA News

Scripps Sports signs local broadcast agreement with Detroit Pistons

Detroit Pistons games will be available on local television next season for the first time since 2005 as part of a multiyear deal with Scripps Sports.

Sources: Optimism Knicks' OG Anunoby returns for start of ECF

There is growing optimism that Knicks forward OG Anunoby will return from his hamstring injury by the start of the Eastern Conference Finals, sources tell ESPN's Shams Charania.

13m

Peterson details goals going from college to the NBA

Darryn Peterson speaks to the media at the 2026 NBA Draft Combine.

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