Cleveland Cavaliers @ Denver Nuggets

27-4, 10-3 Away

149

27-4, 10-3 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Cavaliers CLE	40	40	36	33	149
Nuggets DEN	38	27	36	34	135

Denver NuggetsNuggetsDEN

16-13, 8-5 Home

135

16-13, 8-5 Home

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
Dean WadeD. Wade#32
Jarrett AllenJ. Allen#31
Evan MobleyE. Mobley#4
Donovan MitchellD. Mitchell#45
Darius GarlandD. Garland#10
bench
Georges NiangG. Niang#20
Caris LeVertC. LeVert#3
Ty JeromeT. Jerome#2
Max StrusM. Strus#1
Sam MerrillS. Merrill#5
Jaylon TysonJ. Tyson#24
Tristan ThompsonT. Thompson#13
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
26	11	3-4	3-4	2-2	3	5	1	0	2	1	2	1	+19
31	22	10-13	0-0	2-2	10	4	2	3	1	3	7	2	+18
31	26	9-13	4-6	4-6	5	6	1	0	1	1	4	4	-1
30	33	10-17	6-12	7-7	5	6	3	1	0	2	3	2	+4
32	25	10-18	2-8	3-4	2	7	2	4	0	0	2	1	+13
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
16	3	1-5	1-3	0-0	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	-4
23	13	5-10	3-4	0-0	3	3	0	0	1	1	2	1	+3
7	2	1-6	0-3	0-1	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	+15
24	5	2-6	1-4	0-0	5	1	1	1	0	1	4	4	-5
19	9	3-4	3-4	0-0	3	0	0	0	2	0	3	1	+10
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	-2
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	149	54-96	23-48	18-22	38	40	10	10	7	9	29	17
		56%	48%	82%

Denver Nuggets

starters
Michael Porter Jr.M. Porter Jr.#1
Nikola JokicN. Jokic#15
Russell WestbrookR. Westbrook#4
Jamal MurrayJ. Murray#27
Christian BraunC. Braun#0
bench
Hunter TysonH. Tyson#5
Zeke NnajiZ. Nnaji#22
Spencer JonesS. Jones#21
DeAndre JordanD. Jordan#6
Jalen PickettJ. Pickett#24
Julian StrawtherJ. Strawther#3
Peyton WatsonP. Watson#8
Dario SaricD. Saric#9
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
32	18	6-11	5-8	1-2	4	3	1	0	0	1	3	5	-5
36	27	12-19	0-3	3-4	14	13	1	3	0	3	11	1	-15
30	11	5-13	1-5	0-0	4	7	4	1	0	0	4	3	-13
40	27	10-20	3-6	4-4	3	11	4	2	0	0	3	3	-9
32	16	7-9	2-4	0-0	2	1	1	1	0	1	1	4	-21
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
6	3	1-3	1-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-2
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+2
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+2
11	4	2-4	0-0	0-1	7	1	0	0	2	3	4	3	-1
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	+2
23	11	4-7	1-2	2-2	2	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	+6
26	18	6-8	2-2	4-5	1	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	-16
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	135	53-94	15-31	14-18	38	39	13	8	3	8	30	20
		56%	48%	78%

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

Matchups

CLE

CLE wins season

2-0

DEN

126

Game 1@ CLE

Final

114

149

Game 2@ DEN

Final

135

Game Information

Denver, CO

Referee:Mitchell Ervin

Referee:Matt Myers

Referee:Natalie Sago

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

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