{"id":548775,"date":"2026-03-20T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548775\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:14:07","slug":"cavaliers-hang-on-to-beat-bulls-115-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548775\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers hang on to beat Bulls 115-110"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0James Harden scored 36, Evan Mobley added 26 points and 14 rebounds and Cleveland hung on to beat the Chicago Bulls 115-110 on Thursday night even though Cavaliers star\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donovan-mitchell-cavaliers-bruised-eye-1257b75163823e94c7d7f92413eff5b6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donovan Mitchell missed the game<\/a>\u00a0because of a bruised left eye.<\/p>\n<p>Harden nailed seven 3-pointers. Jaylon Tyson chipped in with 18 points and 11 rebounds, and the Cavaliers hung on after a 29-point lead in the third quarter dwindled to one in the game\u2019s closing minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago\u2019s Tre Jones cut it to 103-102 when he made two free throws with 3:33 remaining. Sam Merrill answered with a 3 for Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers were up 110-107 when Jones missed a potential tying 3 and Leonard Miller missed a layup with about a minute left. Harden hit a pull-up jumper to make it a five-point game with 33 seconds left and Cleveland hung on for the win.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell was hurt in a collision in practice with Mobley. The seven-time All-Star played through the injury in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cavaliers-bucks-score-ed8113f9d504a6441435f3e3fc9f7e41\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland\u2019s victory at Milwaukee<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday night and finished with 19 points on 4-for-14 shooting. He said after the game that he was having trouble seeing.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Kenny Atkinson said the injury is \u201cnothing serious,\u201d but the Cavaliers need to \u201clet it clear up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones scored 20 for Chicago, which lost for the fourth time in five games. Rob Dillingham added a season-high 17 points. Nick Richards finished with 16 points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Cavaliers: Visit New Orleans on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Bulls: Host Houston on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0James Harden scored 36, Evan Mobley added 26 points and 14 rebounds and Cleveland hung on to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[1014,3550,6643,49,48,4850,459,44,6376,122427,122429,82,39],"class_list":["post-548775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548775","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=548775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}