Cleveland Cavaliers (22-19, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (22-16, fifth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Philadelphia; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Cleveland faces Philadelphia in Eastern Conference action Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The 76ers have gone 17-13 against Eastern Conference teams. Philadelphia has a 5-6 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers are 14-13 against Eastern Conference opponents. Cleveland has a 0-3 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The 76ers score 117.1 points per game, 0.6 fewer points than the 117.7 the Cavaliers give up. The Cavaliers are shooting 47.0% from the field, 0.8% higher than the 46.2% the 76ers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The two teams square off for the second time this season. The Cavaliers defeated the 76ers 132-121 in their last meeting on Nov. 6. Donovan Mitchell led the Cavaliers with 46 points, and Quentin Grimes led the 76ers with 27 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Grimes is scoring 14.2 points per game and averaging 3.9 rebounds for the 76ers. Tyrese Maxey is averaging 30.9 points and 4.4 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mitchell is averaging 29.5 points, 5.5 assists and 1.5 steals for the Cavaliers. Sam Merrill is averaging 3.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: 76ers: 6-4, averaging 118.6 points, 42.3 rebounds, 23.4 assists, 9.2 steals and 6.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: 5-5, averaging 118.9 points, 43.4 rebounds, 30.3 assists, 8.9 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 49.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: 76ers: None listed.<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: Max Strus: out (foot), Dean Wade: out (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers (22-19, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (22-16, fifth in the Eastern Conference) Philadelphia;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[216956,4225,64,63,590,31647,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-409917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-216956","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409917","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=409917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}