{"id":13783,"date":"2025-10-23T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/13783\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:02:08","slug":"brooklyn-faces-conference-rival-cleveland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/13783\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn faces conference rival Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u2014 Cleveland faces Brooklyn for an Eastern Conference matchup Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The teams square off Friday for the first time this season. <\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn is 0-0 at home, and Cleveland is 0-1 on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn finished 26-56 overall and 14-37 in Eastern Conference action last season. The Nets averaged 105.1 points per game last season, 43.5 in the paint, 17.1 off of turnovers and 14.3 on fast breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland went 64-18 overall and 41-11 in Eastern Conference games during the 2024-25 season. The Cavaliers averaged 121.9 points per game while allowing opponents to score 112.4 last season.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Nets: Haywood Highsmith: out (knee), Danny Wolf: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n<p>Cavaliers: Max Strus: out (foot), Darius Garland: out (toe), De&#8217;Andre Hunter: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(AP) \u2014 Cleveland faces Brooklyn for an Eastern Conference matchup Friday. The teams square off Friday for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[8703,118,98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-13783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-ap","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}