CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Jarrett Allen had 27 points and 10 rebounds and the Cleveland Cavaliers held on to beat Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs 113-101 on Monday night.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Cleveland had seven players score in double figures
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Wembanyama had 26 points and 14 rebounds for his 10th double-double of the season for the Spurs
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Both teams were coming off disappointing losses on Saturday<\/p>\n
Cleveland had seven players score in double figures. Evan Mobley scored 16 points and Darius Garland added 15 points and 11 assists.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama had 26 points and 14 rebounds for his 10th double-double of the season for the Spurs, who have lost two straight after winning eight consecutive games.<\/p>\n
Stephon Castle scored 15 points for the Spurs and De’Aaron Fox 14 added points after a one-game absence due to tightness in his left adductor.<\/p>\n
Both teams were coming off disappointing losses on Saturday, but the Cavaliers responded by snapping a two-game skid.<\/p>\n
San Antonio had an eight-game winning streak\u00a0ended in a 127-114 loss to Utah<\/a>. Cleveland fell behind by 37 points on the way\u00a0to a 117-100 loss to Houston<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Cavaliers trailed by eight points in the third quarter before rallying in the fourth quarter against the Spurs.<\/p>\n Jaylen Tyson hit consecutive 3-pointers to give Cleveland an 87-82 lead two minutes into the final quarter. The lead swelled to 94-84 and the Spurs failed to rally as they did in the first half.<\/p>\n Cleveland took its first double-digit lead at 22-12 on a four-point play by De’Andre Hunter following a Luke Kornet foul on his 3-pointer in the right corner.<\/p>\n Hunter finished with 11 points and Kornet had 10.<\/p>\n Allen shot 6 for 12 while scoring 12 points in the first half, including a pair of buckets he blindly tossed behind him and off the backboard.<\/p>\n The Cavaliers held an early lead, but Wembanyama dazzled the sell-out crowd.<\/p>\n Castle threw the ball off the backboard and Wembanyama came flying through the lane to throw down a two-handed dunk three minutes into the game. Wembanyama later drained a 25-foot, 3-pointer off one foot in the final minute of the first quarter to give San Antonio a 26-25 lead.<\/p>\n Up next\n<\/p>\n Cavaliers: Host Phoenix on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Spurs: Host New York on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Jarrett Allen had 27 points and 10 rebounds and the Cleveland Cavaliers held on to beat Victor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1970,1977,2097,7,305,6,67,16,8424,8757,66,1974],"class_list":{"0":"post-505197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ohio","16":"tag-ohio-cleveland-cavaliers","17":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115808183570779557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505197","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=505197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}