{"id":7508,"date":"2025-01-09T04:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T04:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/cavaliers-win-11th-consecutive-game-after-topping-the-thunder-in-historic-nba-matchup\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T04:01:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T04:01:05","slug":"cavaliers-win-11th-consecutive-game-after-topping-the-thunder-in-historic-nba-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/cavaliers-win-11th-consecutive-game-after-topping-the-thunder-in-historic-nba-matchup\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers win 11th consecutive game after topping the Thunder in historic NBA matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The two best teams in the NBA \u2014 the Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder \u2014 squared off in the first game in league history featuring clubs on 15 and 10 games winning streaks.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Oklahoma City entered Wednesday\u2019s showdown having won 15 games in a row, while Cleveland came into the contest winners of 10 straight.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            In an exciting and tense back-and-forth game, the NBA\u2019s best Cavaliers extended their winning streak to 11 games after defeating the Western Conference\u2019s best Thunder 129-122 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The marquee matchup had 30 lead changes.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">             Cleveland has won at least 11 straight games for the second time. The Cavs started the season 15-0.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Oklahoma City\u2019s 15-game winning streak is snapped as the Thunder suffered its first loss since December 1    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Seven Cavaliers finished in double-digits led by center Jarrett Allen who had 25 points, 12 rebounds, six assists and three steals. Power forward Evan Mobley added 21 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cIt felt like a battle the whole night. They were scoring. We were scoring, getting stops on both sides. At the end of the night, it came down to which team had more effort,\u201d Allen said after the victory.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Allen and Mobley are the first Cavaliers\u2019 teammates with at least 20 points, 10 rebounds and five assists since LeBron James and Dwyane Wade on November 17, 2017.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Thunder all-star guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had a game-high 31 points on 13-of-27 shooting and forward Jalen Williams finished with 25 points, nine assists and five rebounds in the losing effort.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The Cavs and Thunder will meet again on January 16 at the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Cleveland improved to 32-4<strong> <\/strong>and<strong> <\/strong>next<strong> <\/strong>hosts the Toronto Raptors on Thursday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Oklahoma City dropped<strong> <\/strong>to 30-6<strong> <\/strong>and take on the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York on Friday.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two best teams in the NBA \u2014 the Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder \u2014 squared off in the first game in league history featuring clubs on 15 and 10 games winning streaks. Oklahoma City entered Wednesday\u2019s showdown having won 15 games in a row, while Cleveland came into the contest winners of 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}