{"id":272517,"date":"2025-11-09T04:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T04:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272517\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T04:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T04:34:15","slug":"cleveland-cavaliers-v-chicago-bulls-atlanta-hawks-v-los-angeles-lakers-josh-giddey-dyson-daniels-ankle-breaker-steals-record-scores-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272517\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers v Chicago Bulls, Atlanta Hawks v Los Angeles Lakers, Josh Giddey, Dyson Daniels, ankle breaker, steals record, scores, latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Giddey gave Australian basketball and Chicago Bulls fans a mighty scare, but thankfully avoided serious injury, while Dyson Daniels delivered another masterclass on Sunday AEDT.<\/p>\n<p>In the third quarter of Chicago\u2019s 128-122 loss in Cleveland, Giddey was crossed over by Cavaliers star De\u2019Andre Hunter and crashed to the floor in a scenario every defender dreads.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter made the most of Giddey\u2019s tumble to charge to the basket for an easy dunk, while the Australian, who is in All-Star contention early in the season, had to leave the court as he was concerned about a rolled ankle.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffWatch NBA with ESPN on Kayo Sports | Stream an average 9 LIVE Regular Season games per week plus the best of the NBA Playoffs.| New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkbasketball-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-basketball-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giddey limped down to the locker room for further inspection, and was quickly cleared, returning to the floor only a few minutes later in a huge sigh of relief.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old played 33 minutes in total for 15 points, nine rebounds and six assists.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761200708_112_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For the Cavaliers, Australian rookie Tyrese Proctor came off the bench to play 13 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old scored six points, brought down two rebounds and dished off an assist.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter and Donovan Mitchell led all comers with 29 points apiece, while Evan Mobley had 24.<\/p>\n<p>In Atlanta, Daniels was only two rebounds shy of a triple-double as his Hawks downed the Los Angeles Lakers 122-102.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels played 36 minutes to register ten points, a career-high 13 assists and eight rebounds. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Great Barrier Thief\u2019 also swiped a steal in the third quarter, extending his ridiculous streak of steals in consecutive games to 62 &#8211; a new franchise record.<\/p>\n<p>It is also the eighth longest streak in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p>The performance was made all the more impressive by the fact Atlanta were missing Trae Young, Jalen Johnson, Nickeil Alexander-Walker and Kristaps Porzingis against the LeBron James-less Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>Luka Doncic had a game-high 22 points for the visitors, while the superstar\u2019s 11 assists were bettered only by Daniels\u2019 tally of 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Giddey gave Australian basketball and Chicago Bulls fans a mighty scare, but thankfully avoided serious injury, while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[2095,158409,158406,4131,7218,64,63,11342,158410,5127,2066,6115,17603,158404,12840,800,39603,24730,9286,12836,7896,7232,158408,158407,590,2041,2067,12293,85,42307,158405,2614],"class_list":["post-272517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-america","tag-ankle-breaker","tag-ankle-breaker-injury","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-basketball","tag-brutal-ankle-breaker","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-cleveland-cavaliers-v","tag-dyson-daniels","tag-espn-inc","tag-evan-mobley","tag-franchise-record","tag-illinois","tag-jalen-johnson","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-masterclass-performance","tag-mighty-scare","tag-nba","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-ohio","tag-sports","tag-state-of-georgia","tag-tyrese-proctor","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}