{"id":649125,"date":"2026-05-04T13:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649125\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:55:12","slug":"cavs-use-third-quarter-surge-to-best-raptors-in-game-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649125\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs use third-quarter surge to best Raptors in Game 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jarrett Allen scored 14 of his career playoff-high-tying 22 points in the third quarter and grabbed 19 rebounds, powering the Cleveland Cavaliers to \u2060a 114-102 win over the visiting Toronto Raptors on Sunday night in Game 7 of their Eastern Conference first-round series.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth-seeded Cleveland, which trailed by double digits in the first and second quarters, will play the top-seeded Detroit Pistons in the East semifinals, beginning Tuesday in Detroit. The home team won every game in the Cavaliers-Pistons series.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan Mitchell also had 22 points and James \u200bHarden posted 18 points and six rebounds for the Cavaliers, who built a 94-72 lead early in the \u200cfourth. Allen had \u200c10 rebounds \u2014 five offensive \u2014 in the third when Cleveland outscored the Raptors 38-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jarrett Allen scored 14 of his career playoff-high-tying 22 points in the third quarter and grabbed 19 rebounds,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,17603,79986,7214,23659,314079,590,13799,19710,85,19707,17602],"class_list":["post-649125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-darko-rajakovic","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-jb-bickerstaff","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-paolo-banchero","tag-sports","tag-tobias-harris","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649125","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=649125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}