{"id":809223,"date":"2026-07-18T03:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809223\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T03:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:09:11","slug":"thomas-scores-24-as-cavaliers-beat-bulls-100-91-in-summer-league-news-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809223\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas scores 24 as Cavaliers beat Bulls, 100-91, in summer league \u2013 News-Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meleek Thomas scored a game-high 24 points, and the Cavaliers beat the Bulls, 100-91, on July 17 in the Las Vegas Summer League.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, a second-round draft pick at No. 34 overall from Arkansas, made 10 of 20 shots from the field, including three 3-pointers. He also had two rebounds, two assists and one steal.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas played in four of the Cavaliers\u2019 five games in Las Vegas and scored at least 20 points in all of them. He had a high of 35 against the Heat on July 13.<\/p>\n<p>Malaki Branham, from Ohio State and Akron SVSM, followed with 13 points and a team-high five assists. Riley Minix and Tre\u2019Von Spillers scored 12 points each, and Xaivian Lee added 10.<\/p>\n<p>Spillers and Rashaun Agee each grabbed nine rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland finished the summer league at 3-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meleek Thomas scored a game-high 24 points, and the Cavaliers beat the Bulls, 100-91, on July 17 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,2357,459,82],"class_list":["post-809223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809223","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=809223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}