With 3.4 seconds left, Kevin Love fired a pass to Lebron James, and James spun around and banked a three pointer off the glass to tie the game with 0.3 remaining. They got 39 points from Kevin Love and a career-high 17 assists from James. The 32-year-old caught, turned and shot the ball in space of 1.5 seconds to get the game-tying basket while falling into the crowd.
Love made 11-for-17 from the field, including 6-for-10 on three-pointers.
The Pacers extended their winning streak to seven games with a 93-90 victory at home to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Any deal involving Anthony would be complicated because of his contract, but why would the Cavs give up Love at this point?
Thanks to All-Star Paul George, the Pacers are in the midst of their longest winning streak in nearly two years.
Last night, the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Washington Wizards 140-135 in what was one of the most incredible games of the season.
Jeff Teague added 17 points for IN, which won despite shooting only 37.9 percent from the field.
Boos rained down from the Madison Square Garden rafters during the Knicks’ 121-107 loss to the rebuilding Los Angeles Lakers on Monday night. Los Angeles posted its first win at the Garden since February 11, 2011.
David Lee led the Spurs with 14 points. Sure, the Washington Wizards were the NBA’s hottest team, and the Cleveland Cavaliers were the defending champions, and Verizon Center was bursting at its ridiculous purple seams.
From Cleveland’s perspective, the past two years go like this: If the Cavaliers would have been healthy the first time they played the Warriors in the NBA Finals in 2015, they would’ve won a title. Thompson finished with 22 points and 12 rebounds. With Bradley Beal, and now [Otto] Porter leading the league in three-point percentage. Afterward, Wall and Beal both said they heard praise from James, Irving and Co.
DeMar Derozan had 31 points in his return to the line-up to help the Raptors past the Clippers in Toronto. It was a fantastic night for LeBron and company and as for Kevin Love he’s not Going Anywhere after the Night he had on Monday Night he was the hero of the game.
Irving wound up with 23 points, while Tristan Thompson had a double-double of 22 points and 12 rebounds. During January, the Cavaliers bench ranked 28th in scoring putting up a measly 26.7 points per game. He earned a one-game suspension for the Kings’ Wednesday contest against the Boston Celtics, an automatic punishment for reaching 16 T’s on the season. But in his last season with the Timberwolves, he averaged 4.4 assists a game – 21.4 percent of his possessions.