{"id":366976,"date":"2025-12-23T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366976\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:03:07","slug":"cavs-vs-pelicans-preview-odds-injury-report-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366976\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs vs. Pelicans: preview, odds, injury report, TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/cavs\/\" title=\"Navigate to Cavaliers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cavaliers<\/a>Published: Dec. 23, 2025, 5:04 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YC5NDVG6GJCFVA3LSCN5BAHSTE\">CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 The Cavs finish their three-game homestand against the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night at Rocket Arena. Both teams are in the second night of a back-to-back after securing wins on Monday. Tipoff is set for 7:30 p.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"M5L6UKAL4ZDH3OCVC5KP6OV4LU\">How to watch the Cavs: See how to watch the Cavs games with this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/tv\/cavs-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/tv\/cavs-schedule\/\">handy game-by-game TV schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what to know about the matchup:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PTPOHW3DNFHRLDCIEEEMIJ6VAY\">Who: Cleveland Cavaliers vs. New Orleans Pelicans<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UWOG2HCHLZDPXP4XHG7DOCUKAY\">Series: First of two matchups in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DRG4ICXJV5BFVC5QVP6CUGFJBM\">Where: Rocket Arena<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"Y4744KOXKVDODHNG4CRQOSLQTQ\">When: 7:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7WFCMOTMSBHB3OOIJMHJXN3KTA\">The point spread: Cavs minus-9.5; O\/U 240.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YOHMUSVN45ECXAHB2E26NPXR6E\">TV: FanDuel Sports Network &#8211; Ohio<\/p>\n<p>Injury report<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZTGDDTPDVRBF7IQXBOEOLFVXKM\">Cavs<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QE42L6QY7ZD2RNJR5HFFDHCEH4\">Out<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"E2WFRJXDTVDU5A6CDFY7U5UDKQ\">Out:<\/p>\n<p>Evan Mobley (left calf; strain)Larry Nance Jr. (right calf; strain)Max Strus (left foot; Jones fracture surgery)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KHQGHIOQTVHZHAIDMSOHA5ZJME\">Pelicans<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OAFY7GYWYJEITOPZHIT3Q2VCGM\">Out<\/p>\n<p>Dejounte Murray (Achilles)<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Sands is a sports journalist and podcast host for Cleveland.com, where he covers the Cleveland Cavaliers and hosts the Wine and Gold Talk podcast. Since joining in October 2023, Sands has provided&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CavaliersPublished: Dec. 23, 2025, 5:04 a.m. CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 The Cavs finish their three-game homestand against the New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,95679,7210,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-366976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers-2024-2025","12":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366976","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=366976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}