{"id":389111,"date":"2026-01-05T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/389111\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:42:08","slug":"cup-of-cavs-news-and-links-for-monday-jan-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/389111\/","title":{"rendered":"Cup of Cavs: News and links for Monday, Jan. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Good morning, it\u2019s Monday, January 5th. The <a href=\"http:\/\/fearthesword.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Cavaliers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> are 20-17 and play the Indiana Pacers on the road tomorrow at 7 PM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cleveland lost to the Pistons yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Game of the Day<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Phoenix Suns at Houston Rockets \u2013 8 PM, NBA League Pass<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kevin Durant takes on his old team as the Suns look for a win on the road in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Rockets are 21-11 coming off a loss to the Dallas Mavericks. Durant had 34 points in that one. Houston is now 5-5 over their last 10 games and is tied with the Los Angeles Lakers for fourth in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Phoenix is a bit lower down in the standings. As of writing, the Suns are 20-14 and sitting in 7th place. Only two games separate them from the Rockets, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Western Conference playoff race will likely come down to the wire, as it always does. This game will hold consequences for either squad that loses.<\/p>\n<p>The Rest of the NBA Slate<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New York Knicks at Detroit Pistons \u2013 7 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Chicago Bulls at Boston Celtics \u2013 7:30 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Atlanta Hawks at Toronto Raptors \u2013 7:30 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Charlotte Hornets at Oklahoma City Thunder \u2013 8 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Denver Nuggets at Philadelphia 76ers \u2013 8:30 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Golden State Warriors at LA Clippers \u2013 10 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Utah Jazz at Portland Trail Blazers \u2013 10 PM<\/p>\n<p>Cavs links of the dayNBA links<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, it\u2019s Monday, January 5th. The Cleveland Cavaliers are 20-17 and play the Indiana Pacers on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[6417,2242,11949,7329,8174,760,1753,13339,2243,5050,3441,29175,5555,5556,38268,1055,355,92285,361,6402,2113,6415,53351,6406,99,2970,4219,17814],"class_list":["post-389111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-boston-celtics","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-draymond-green","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-houston-rockets","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-joel-embiid","tag-kevin-durant","tag-la-clippers","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-nba-league-pass","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-pistons","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-sports","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-utah-jazz","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389111","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=389111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}