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Cleveland Cavaliers center Jarrett Allen dunks over Toronto Raptors forward Sandro Mamukelashvili during the first round of the NBA Playoffs. (AP Photo)<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Jarrett Allen tied his playoff career high with 22 points and grabbed 19 rebounds as the Cleveland Cavaliers advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals with a 114-102 victory over the Toronto Raptors in Game 7 of their series Sunday night.
\nDonovan Mitchell led the Cavaliers with 22 points and James Harden added 18 in a series in which the home team won all seven games.
\nCleveland, the No. 4 seed, will visit top-seeded Detroit on Tuesday night in Game 1 of the second round. The Central Division rivals split their four regular-season meetings.
\n\u201cI think we\u2019ve already moved on (to focusing on Detroit),\u201d Mitchell said on the court immediately after the final buzzer. \u201cWe understand we won this game, but we play in a couple days.,\u201d
\nScottie Barnes had 24 points and nine rebounds and RJ Barrett scored 23 for the Raptors, who were in the playoffs for the first time since 2022.
\nAll-Star forward Brandon Ingram missed his second straight game with a bruised right heel.
\n\u201cWe gave it all, everything we had today,\u201d Raptors coach Darko Rajakovic said. \u201cOur guys were awesome. We made it hard on them.\u201d
\nAllen had 14 points and 10 rebounds, including five on the offensive end, as Cleveland went on a 49-21 run during a 15-minute span over the second and third quarters where it turned a nine-point deficit into an 19-point advantage.
\nOne of Allen\u2019s baskets during the third quarter was a fast-break dunk after Max Strus stole the ball from Barnes to make it 74-59.
\nCleveland was 17 of 33 from the field, including five 3-pointers, during the run while converting seven of Toronto\u2019s turnovers into 14 points. The Raptors shot 6 of 23 and were 1 of 8 behind the arc.
\nThe Cavaliers also had a 25-8 rebounding advantage during the spurt, and converted 10 offensive boards into 14 points.
\n\u201cThey were scoring in transition, getting some offensive rebounds,\u201d Barnes said. \u201cThe offensive rebounds were giving them extra possessions. That really hurt us, giving them momentum.\u201d
\nToronto led for most of the first half and had a 10-point lead midway through the second quarter before Cleveland began its comeback.
\nThe Cavaliers were down 47-38 with 2:58 remaining before going on a 11-2 run to close the half and tie it at 49. The Cavs were 4 of 17 on 3-pointers before Harden, Strus and Jaylon Tyson connected from beyond the arc.
\n\u201cSam (Merrill) said this whole series, we haven\u2019t closed out the second quarter. We all took that to heart. We all looked at ourselves and decided that now was the time to do it,\u201d said Allen, who had his 11th double-double in a playoff game. \u201cI think the defensive stops, rebounds and the offense is still shaky in some areas, but I think when we rebound the ball and get stops, that just translates to the offense so much better and transition and open shots for everybody.\u201d
\nCleveland took the lead with nine straight points to open the third quarter as Mitchell scored five and Mobley added four.
\n\u201cIn the first half, we were forcing it too much, driving down tunnels and forcing it to the basket,\u201d coach Kenny Atkinson said. \u201cSometimes you have to move the defense. We just kept hammering that message.\u201d
\nThe Cavaliers are 6-5 in Game 7s, including unbeaten in five home games. Toronto fell to 3-4 in Game 7 and 0-2 on the road.
\nPISTONS 116, MAGIC 94
\nDETROIT (AP) \u2014 Cade Cunningham had 32 points and 12 assists, Tobias Harris added 30 points and the Detroit Pistons beat the Orlando Magic 116-94 in Game 7 on Sunday to win a playoff series for the first time in 18 years.
\nCunningham averaged 32.4 points for Detroit, which last won a postseason series by beating Orlando in the second round in 2008. The Pistons advance to play the winner of Sunday night\u2019s Game 7 between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Toronto Raptors. Game 1 will be Tuesday at Little Caesars Arena.
\n\u201cWe were pushed to the limit,\u201d Cunningham said. \u201cAnd it made us really reflect on how we were playing, what got us to this position and what made us win as many games as we won in the regular season. And it got us back to playing the basketball that we knew we were capable of.\u201d
\nThe Pistons became the 15th team in NBA history to overcome a 3-1 deficit and the second in the last two nights, after the Philadelphia 76ers came back to eliminate Boston.
\n\u201cI mean, it\u2019s expected,\u201d Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff said of his team\u2019s resiliency. \u201cAnd that\u2019s the amount of belief that we have in this group. This is a special group. And you can\u2019t count us out. No matter the circumstances, no matter the situation, I like our chances to fight our way back.\u201d
\nThey trailed by 24 points in Game 6 in Orlando before rallying to take the series at home. Orlando only scored 113 points in the final six quarters of the series \u2014 an average of 18.8 per period.
\nCunningham and Harris became the first Pistons teammates to score 30 points in a playoff game since Bob Lanier (33) and Howard Porter (30) against the Golden State Warriors on April 17, 1977.
\n\u201cWe really bonded this season,\u201d Cunningham said. \u201cThis group is super tight. We think we can do anything. We\u2019ve had our backs against the wall at times in the regular season, but we stuck together and we found our way out of it.\u201d
\nPaolo Banchero scored 38 for the Magic.
\nEach team needed a second scoring option in Game 7. Cunningham had carried the Pistons while Banchero was Orlando\u2019s only weapon after Franz Wagner was injured in Game 4.
\nHarris filled that role for Detroit, but Orlando only had one other player reach double figures in the first three quarters, as Desmond Bane had 10.
\n\u201cWe just couldn\u2019t find the basket,\u201d coach Jamahl Mosley said. \u201cWe were playing well on defense, but we couldn\u2019t put the ball in the hole.\u201d
\nThe Pistons also got a big game from All-Star center Jalen Duren. He was outplayed by Wendell Carter Jr. in the first six games, but put up his first double-double of the series with 15 points and 15 rebounds.
\nHarris scored 17 points in the second quarter as the Pistons finished the half on a 9-2 run to take a 60-49 lead.
\nThe Pistons\u2019 surge continued into the second half, as they opened the third quarter with a 11-2 run to go up 71-51. Nine of the points came from Cunningham and Harris.
\nThe Magic finished the third quarter with 15 points \u2014 the third time in their last five periods they couldn\u2019t reach 20 points.
\nDaniss Jenkins hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to give Detroit a 83-64 lead going into the fourth, and the Magic never threatened down the stretch.
\n\u201cThey fought and battled the whole way,\u201d Mosley said. \u201cWe just didn\u2019t get the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers center Jarrett Allen dunks over Toronto Raptors forward Sandro Mamukelashvili during the first round of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[270313,270312,355,99,18068],"class_list":["post-624454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-advance-to-conference-semifinals","tag-cavs-defeat-raptors","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624454","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=624454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}