\u2022 2026 Summer League<\/a><\/p>\n
LAS VEGAS \u2013 A prolific scoring performance from second-round pick Meleek Thomas fueled the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 90-73 victory<\/a> over the Miami Heat in 2026 NBA Summer League<\/a> action at The Pavilion on Monday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n Thomas<\/a> shot a blistering 14-for-23 from the floor \u2013 including 5-for-9 from behind the arc \u2013 on his way to a game-high 35 points. Thomas also adding three rebounds, three assists and two steals.<\/p>\n Cleveland dominated the Heat in the paint by a 50-38 scoring margin.<\/p>\n The Cavaliers emerged from the first quarter holding a slim 21-20 lead, but the Cavaliers\u2019 26-16 advantage in the second sent them into halftime with a seemingly commanding 11-point edge.<\/p>\n While the Heat managed to put a five-point dent in their deficit during the third, the Cavs\u2019 8-0 run over the first 2:51 of the final period helped set up the double-digit victory.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Meleek Thomas goes off for 35 points in the Cavaliers’ Monday victory over the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n Jaxson Robinson<\/a> was a distant second for the Cavaliers behind Thomas with 13 points, complementing them with six rebounds. Malaki Branham compiled 11 points, four rebounds, one assist and two steals.<\/p>\n Tre Donaldson<\/a> paced the Heat with 22 points on the strength of 10-for-18 shooting from the field, adding four rebounds and three assists. Jahmir Young finished with 12 points, four rebounds, two assists and two steals.<\/p>\n J\u2019Vonne Hadley and Nate Kingz produced 10 points apiece while pulling down five and three rebounds, respectively.<\/p>\n Rookie second-round pick Ryan Conwell sat out due to a hip injury.<\/p>\n The Cavaliers are back in action Wednesday against the New Orleans Pelicans (5:30 ET, Prime Video<\/a>), while the Heat face the Toronto Raptors on Thursday (9 ET, ESPN 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cavaliers defeated the Heat, 90-73, on Monday. Both teams are now 1-2 in Summer League action. \u2022…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,375202,590,85],"class_list":["post-799011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-heat-cavaliers-summer-league-2026","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799011","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=799011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cleveland](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1782882446_908_logo.png\"){kind=logo}
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