MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Evan Mobley scored 27 points and Jarrett Allen had 25 as the Cleveland Cavaliers cruised past the Milwaukee Bucks 136-111 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Mobley connected on 11 of 16 shots while Allen made 12 of 16 for Cleveland (4-2), which bounced back after having its three-game winning streak snapped on Thursday at Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Allen and Mario Hezonja each had 11 rebounds. Donovan Mitchell added 15 points and James Harden chipped in with 13 points and seven assists.<\/p>\n
The Bucks held a 25-24 advantage after one quarter before the Cavaliers erupted for 48 second-quarter points and grabbed a 72-46 lead at the half. Cleveland shot 62% in the first half and was paced by Allen\u2019s 19 points. Milwaukee shot 31% through two quarters.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers cracked the 100-point mark with 2:22 left in the third quarter on Allen\u2019s putback and built a 34-point lead late in the third while tallying 37 points in the period.<\/p>\n
Kel\u2019el Ware had 19 points, Tyler Herro had 15 and Kyle Kuzma and rookies Nate Ament and Brayden Burries scored 14 apiece for Milwaukee (1-5), which was routed by the Houston Rockets 132-100 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Cavs guard Meleek Thomas returned after missing one game with right foot soreness and tallied 13 points in 23 minutes, while forward\/guard Jaylon Tyson sat out with a right ankle sprain.<\/p>\n
Jackson Chourio, Cooper Pratt, Dustin May and Antonio Senzatela of the World Series champion Milwaukee Brewers attended the game, along with Brewers General Manager Matt Arnold.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: Host Oklahoma City on Monday.<\/p>\n
Bucks: Visit Minnesota on Monday in search of their first road win.<\/p>\n
___<\/p>\n
See AP\u2019s full NBA coverage here <\/p>\n
Rich Rovito, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Evan Mobley scored 27 points and Jarrett Allen had 25 as the Cleveland Cavaliers cruised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-953862","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\/953862","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=953862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}