{"id":393231,"date":"2026-01-07T05:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393231\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T05:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:21:06","slug":"cavaliers-rally-late-hand-pacers-a-franchise-record-13th-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393231\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers rally late, hand Pacers a franchise-record 13th straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS \u2014\u00a0Darius Garland\u00a0scored 14 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter, fuelling a late 13-point run that sent the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> past the struggling Indiana Pacers<\/a> 120-116 on Tuesday for their fourth win in five games.<\/p>\n

Indiana, the defending Eastern Conference champs, lost its 13th straight to set a franchise record in its NBA era. The Pacers are now a league-worst 6-31 and are one loss away from matching the Washington Wizards’ 14-game skid for the league’s longest skid this season.<\/p>\n

The Cavs weren’t even at full strength in this one.<\/p>\n

Coach Kenny Atkinson gave all-star guard Donovan Mitchell a day off just hours after team officials announced Max Strus was expected to miss at least another month because of a left foot injury. Atkinson said that the updated timeline was not because Strus had suffered a setback. Cleveland also lost forward Dean Wade in the first half with a bruised left knee.<\/p>\n

And yet, Cleveland managed to erase the nine-point deficit they faced entering the fourth quarter. Evan Mobley had 20 points while Jarrett Allen and Sam Merrill each scored 19. Merrill went 6 of 10 on 3-pointers.<\/p>\n

Pascal Siakam led the Pacers with 22 points and\u00a0Jay Huff tied his season high with 20 points,\u00a0going 7 of 10 from the field wand 4 of 7 on 3s. Andrew Nembhard had 15 points and 11 assists. Indiana played without center Isaiah Jackson, swingman Bennedict Mathurin, forward Obi Toppin and All-Star guard Tyrese Haliburton because of injuries.<\/p>\n

Indiana still had a chance to force overtime in the waning seconds, but couldn’t tie the score as the game turned into a free-throw contest.<\/p>\n

The loss also delayed coach Rick Carlisle’s 1,000th win for yet two more days.<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: Visit Minnesota on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Pacers: Travel to Charlotte on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2014\u00a0Darius Garland\u00a0scored 14 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter, fuelling a late 13-point run that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-393231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}