{"id":410097,"date":"2026-01-13T12:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/410097\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T12:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:51:07","slug":"jazz-beats-cavaliers-123-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/410097\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz beats Cavaliers 123-112"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Keyonte George scored 32 points, Lauri Markkanen added 28 and the Utah Jazz bounced back after a 55-point loss and defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 123-112 Monday night.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

George had 16 points during the third quarter, when Utah rallied from a 10-point deficit
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Darius Garland led Cleveland with 23 points and Donovan Mitchell scored 21
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The Cavaliers have dropped two of three<\/p>\n

George had 16 points during the third quarter, when Utah rallied from a 10-point deficit and regained control and began its five-game road trip with a victory. George also was 12 of 12 at the free throw line and had nine assists.<\/p>\n

The win was the Jazz’s second in their past eight games and came\u00a0two nights after a 150-95 loss to the Charlotte Hornets<\/a>, the second-largest by scoring margin in franchise history and the biggest since they moved from New Orleans in 1979.<\/p>\n

Markkanen, 10th in the league in scoring at 27.8 points per game, also had 12 rebounds. Jusuf Nurkik, who missed the last two games due to a toe injury, had 11 points and 17 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Darius Garland led Cleveland with 23 points and Donovan Mitchell scored 21. The Cavaliers have dropped two of three.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers trailed by 17 points midway through the first quarter and 46-36 before going on a 26-8 run over the last 7:45 of the second quarter to take a 62-54 lead at halftime. Garland led the way during the run with nine points.<\/p>\n

Cleveland’s largest lead was 10 points early in the third quarter before Utah rallied by going on a 21-8 run.<\/p>\n

Utah had a 90-89 lead early in the fourth quarter before going on a 16-6 run over a three-minute span to take control. Svi Mykhailiuk began the run with a pair of 3-pointers.<\/p>\n

Both teams shot well from the line. Cleveland made all 13 of its free throws and Utah was 25 of 28.<\/p>\n

Up next\n<\/p>\n

Jazz: At Chicago on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: At Philadelphia on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Keyonte George scored 32 points, Lauri Markkanen added 28 and the Utah Jazz bounced back after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[58195,16738,3979,64,63,6115,590,44,12293,143547,129816,58194,85,39],"class_list":["post-410097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cleveland","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-ohio-cleveland-top-stories","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410097","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=410097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}