{"id":579366,"date":"2026-04-03T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579366\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:12:09","slug":"donovan-mitchell-scores-25-max-strus-24-as-cleveland-cavaliers-hold-off-golden-state-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579366\/","title":{"rendered":"Donovan Mitchell scores 25, Max Strus 24 as Cleveland Cavaliers hold off Golden State Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Donovan Mitchell<\/a> had 25 points and six rebounds, Max Strus<\/a>\u2019 3-pointer with 54 seconds left helped seal it as he scored 24, and the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> beat the Golden State Warriors<\/a> 118-111 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

James Harden<\/a> contributed 19 points and five assists as the Cavs won for the seventh time in nine games during a stretch playing five times in eight nights.<\/p>\n

Gui Santos<\/a> and Brandin Podziemski<\/a> scored 25 points apiece for the Warriors, who were missing Stephen Curry<\/a> for the 27th straight game but his return could come as soon as Sunday. He scrimmaged 5-on-5 for the third time in as many days to test his injured right knee that has sidelined him since Jan. 30.<\/p>\n

Coach Steve Kerr said Curry and Vice President of Player Health and Performance Rick Celebrini might decide as soon as Friday based on how Curry feels a day later whether he can return to face the Rockets.<\/p>\n

With 9:28 left, Cleveland\u2019s Dennis Schroder<\/a> made a hard foul from behind on a driving LJ Cryer and it was reviewed and ruled a Flagrant 1 for his leap and kick into the Warriors guard. Draymond Green<\/a> was called for a technical on the play after he shoved Schroder while helping Cryer up from the floor.<\/p>\n

Schroder was whistled for a technical seven seconds later then Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson \u2014 a former Warriors top assistant \u2014 received a technical. <\/p>\n

Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> had 16 points and seven rebounds for the Warriors after sitting out a 127-113 loss to San Antonio on Wednesday in the front end of a back-to-back, while Gary Payton II<\/a> also rested his right knee for the first game before playing Thursday and matching his career high with 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Golden State also got some other reinforcements back with the returns of Santos after he was hit in the pelvic bone and De\u2019Anthony Melton from a sprained left thumb.<\/p>\n

Green passed Larry Smith (6,440) for third on the Warriors\u2019 career rebounding list.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: Host Indiana on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Warriors: Host Houston on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/p>\n

Janie Mccauley, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Donovan Mitchell had 25 points and six rebounds, Max Strus\u2019 3-pointer with 54 seconds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-579366","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\/579366","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=579366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}