{"id":380570,"date":"2026-10-23T07:08:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380570\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T07:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:08:42","slug":"brooklyn-takes-on-cleveland-for-conference-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380570\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn takes on Cleveland for conference showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/brooklyn-nets-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/cleveland-cavaliers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Cleveland; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Brooklyn takes on Cleveland in Eastern Conference action Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Cleveland went 52-30 overall and 33-19 in Eastern Conference action a season ago. The Cavaliers averaged 18.4 points off of turnovers, 15.1 second-chance points and 33.4 bench points last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Brooklyn finished 20-62 overall and 14-37 in Eastern Conference action during the 2025-26 season. The Nets averaged 8.0 steals, 4.3 blocks and 15.0 turnovers per game last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Cavaliers: Nae&#8217;Qwan Tomlin: out (back), Khalifa Diop: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Nets: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/tyler-bilodeau-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Bilodeau<\/a>: day to day (shoulder).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Brooklyn Nets vs. Cleveland Cavaliers Cleveland; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: Brooklyn takes on Cleveland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,1266,54398,4568,9,24,63,106624],"class_list":["post-380570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-event_preview","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-tyler-bilodeau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380570","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=380570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}