{"id":375200,"date":"2025-12-29T03:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/375200\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T03:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:05:09","slug":"cavs-at-spurs-how-to-watch-odds-and-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/375200\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs at Spurs: How to watch, odds, and injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"

This three-game road trip was supposed to show us where the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> were in the league\u2019s hierarchy. Through two games, it\u2019s clear that the Cavs are currently nowhere close to competing with the top of the league. We\u2019ll see if that changes when they take on the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> on national TV.<\/p>\n

The Cavs are 3-7 against teams in the top 10 of point differential this season. Their net rating in those games isn\u2019t bad (8th<\/a>), but their inability to pull out close games against top teams has been an issue. Their wins against teams inside the top 10 of point differential came against the Detroit Pistons<\/a>, the Spurs last month, and the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n

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The Cavaliers will try to defeat the Spurs again on Monday and complete the regular-season series sweep. But unlike last time, they\u2019ll have to go through Victor Wembanyama to do so.<\/p>\n

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Who:\u00a0Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (17-16) at San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (23-8)<\/p>\n

Where: Frost Bank Center \u2013 San Antonio, TX<\/p>\n

When: Monday, Dec. 29 at 8:00 pm EST<\/p>\n

TV: NBC, Peacock<\/p>\n

Point spread: Spurs -4.5<\/p>\n

Cavs injury report: Larry Nance Jr. \u2013 OUT (calf), Max Strus \u2013 OUT (foot), Chris Livingston \u2013 OUT (G League), Luke Travers \u2013 OUT (G League)<\/p>\n

Spurs injury report: De\u2019Aaron Fox \u2013 QUESTIONABLE (left adductor), Harrison Ingram \u2013 OUT (G League), David Jones Garcia \u2013 OUT (G League), Stanley Umude \u2013 OUT (G League)<\/p>\n

Cavs expected starting lineup: Darius Garland, Donovan Mitchell, Sam Merrill, Dean Wade, Jarrett Allen<\/p>\n

Spurs expected starting lineup: Stephon Castle, Devin Vassell, Julian Champagnie, Harrison Barnes, Victor Wembanyama<\/p>\n

Previous matchup: The Cavs defeated the Spurs 130-117 on Dec. 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look at both teams\u2019 impact stats via Cleaning the Glass<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Offensive Rating<\/p>\n

Defensive Rating<\/p>\n

Net Rating<\/p>\n

Cavs<\/p>\n

117.3 (10th)<\/p>\n

115.8 (16th)<\/p>\n

+1.5 (13th)<\/p>\n

Spurs<\/p>\n

119.3 (6th)<\/p>\n

113.8 (8th)<\/p>\n

+5.5 (7th)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This three-game road trip was supposed to show us where the Cleveland Cavaliers were in the league\u2019s hierarchy.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[175684,142290,8174,27494,174822,28138,27496,4576,99528,13054,45798,13336,27495,164665,51300,175685,27497,2821,355,111822,6999,2116,99,179079,40552,60950,32090],"class_list":["post-375200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-cavs-injury-report","tag-chris-livingston","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-darius-garland","tag-david-jones-garcia","tag-deaaron-fox","tag-dean-wade","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-devin-vassell","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-harrison-barnes","tag-harrison-ingram","tag-jarrett-allen","tag-julian-champagnie","tag-larry-nance-jr","tag-luke-travers","tag-max-strus","tag-miami","tag-nba","tag-sam-merrill","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-stanley-umude","tag-stephon-castle","tag-the-spurs","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}