Atlanta Hawks (3-3, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (3-3, seventh in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Cleveland; Sunday, 6 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Eastern Conference foes Cleveland and Atlanta square off on Sunday.<\/p>\n
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Cleveland finished 64-18 overall and 41-11 in Eastern Conference play a season ago. The Cavaliers averaged 8.2 steals, 4.3 blocks and 12.5 turnovers per game last season.<\/p>\n
Atlanta went 40-42 overall and 30-22 in Eastern Conference games during the 2024-25 season. The Hawks averaged 29.6 assists per game on 43.4 made field goals last season.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Cavaliers: Max Strus: out (foot), Donovan Mitchell: day to day (hamstring), Sam Merrill: day to day (hip), Darius Garland: day to day (toe), Jarrett Allen: day to day (hand).<\/p>\n
Hawks: Trae Young: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Hawks (3-3, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (3-3, seventh in the Eastern Conference) Cleveland;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[208,7,306,305,193,3846,791,58874,864,1409,1178,872,6,1166,494],"class_list":{"0":"post-381225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-cavaliers","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","13":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","14":"tag-darius-garland","15":"tag-day-to-day","16":"tag-donovan-mitchell","17":"tag-eastern-conference","18":"tag-jarrett-allen","19":"tag-max-strus","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-sam-merrill","22":"tag-trae-young"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115473018184518613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}