{"id":311170,"date":"2026-10-21T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311170\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:02:07","slug":"philadelphia-faces-conference-foe-cleveland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311170\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia faces conference foe Cleveland"},"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\/cleveland-cavaliers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> vs. Philadelphia 76ers<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Philadelphia; Thursday, 7 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=\"\">LINE: 76ers -2.5; over\/under is 235.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Eastern Conference foes Philadelphia and Cleveland meet on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Philadelphia went 45-37 overall and 27-25 in Eastern Conference play last season. The 76ers averaged 18.9 points off of turnovers, 15.4 second-chance points and 32.4 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=\"\">Cleveland finished 52-30 overall and 33-19 in Eastern Conference games during the 2025-26 season. The Cavaliers shot 48.2% from the field and 36.0% from 3-point range 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: 76ers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/ariel-hukporti-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariel Hukporti<\/a>: out for season (achilles), Tacko Fall: out (hip), Dean Wade: out (ankle), Dominick Barlow: out (back).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Cavaliers: Nae&#8217;Qwan Tomlin: out (back).<\/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 Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Philadelphia 76ers Philadelphia; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT LINE: 76ers -2.5; over\/under is 235.5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39662,17190,56878,14498,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-311170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-ariel-hukporti","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-event_preview","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311170","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=311170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}