{"id":26378,"date":"2025-11-06T05:54:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26378\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T05:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:54:41","slug":"philadelphia-76ers-drop-second-straight-game-as-donovan-mitchell-scores-46-points-in-loss-to-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26378\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers drop second straight game as Donovan Mitchell scores 46 points in loss to Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donovan Mitchell scored a season-high 46 points, Jarrett Allen had 24 points and 10 rebounds and the Cleveland Cavaliers pulled away in the second half for a 132-121 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Evan Mobley added 23 for Cleveland, which won its second straight.<\/p>\n<p>Cavaliers&#8217; All-Star point guard Darius Garland had eight points in 26 minutes in his season debut. Garland missed the first seven games after offseason surgery on his left big toe.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia, which never led in the game, got 27 points apiece from Tyrese Maxey and Quentin Grimes.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell followed up Sunday&#8217;s 37-point, eight 3-pointer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hawks-cavaliers-score-1332450bbc8ac0bc7406e43393a84125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">performance against Atlanta<\/a>\u00a0by going 15 of 21 from the floor, 6 of 11 from long distance and making all eight of his foul shots against a 76ers squad that dropped games on back-to-back nights.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Embiid did not play on Wednesday as Philadelphia is not having him play on consecutive nights early in the season due to left knee issues.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland stormed out to a 17-point lead eight minutes into the game before Philadelphia slowly rallied.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Oubre Jr.&#8217;s 3-pointer tied it at 72 with 9:48 remaining in the third quarter before the Cavaliers regained control, scoring 13 straight points. Allen scored six during the run and Mobley added five.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland outscored Philadelphia 35-15 the rest of the quarter after the 76ers tied it and were up 107-87 going into the final 12 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers&#8217; largest lead was 116-90 early in the fourth quarter after Mitchell&#8217;s driving jumper in the lane.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia made a late charge to get within nine late in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<\/p>\n<p>76ers: Host Toronto on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Cavaliers: At Washington on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donovan Mitchell scored a season-high 46 points, Jarrett Allen had 24 points and 10 rebounds and the Cleveland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17190,5955,4794,69,1002,71,70,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-26378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","9":"tag-joel-embiid","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}