The Cleveland Cavaliers prolonged their greatest begin to an NBA season with a tenth successive victory by beating the Golden State Warriors 136-117.
Darius Garland scored a game-high 27 factors for the Cavs, who turned solely the fifteenth staff to start out with a 10-0 report.
Cleveland dominated from the outset and led 83-42 at half-time, with Stephen Curry managing simply 12 factors for the Warriors whose five-game successful streak was halted.
“10-0 is a magic quantity,” Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson mentioned. “We’re taking part in actually good basketball and I am simply actually happy the place the group is.
“I used to be frightened about tonight – they’re 7-1 and rolling they usually’re coming in right here, they’re champions and they’ll try to knock our block off.
“The best way we got here out tonight – that stunned me, how prepared we had been, how hungry we had been.”
Elsewhere, Jayson Tatum scored 33 factors as reigning champions the Boston Celtics earned a 108-104 additional time win in opposition to the Brooklyn Nets.
Boston, who suffered a primary loss of their earlier recreation in opposition to the Warriors, didn’t lead till the fourth quarter earlier than sealing the victory in additional time after the match was tied 94-94 on the finish of regular time.
The Phoenix Suns edged previous the Dallas Mavericks 114-113 with Jusuf Nurkic netting a match-winning free throw with 0.8 seconds left.
The Los Angeles Lakers bounced again from 4 defeats in 5 on the highway to beat the Philadelphia 76ers 116-106 at residence.
Anthony Davis scored 31 factors for the Lakers whereas LeBron James recorded the 114th triple-double of his profession with 21 factors, 13 assists and 12 rebounds.
