{"id":510923,"date":"2026-01-02T02:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/510923\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T02:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:11:11","slug":"cavs-vs-nuggets-how-to-watch-odds-and-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/510923\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs vs. Nuggets: How to watch, odds, and injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Who: <a href=\"http:\/\/fearthesword.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (19-16) vs. Denver Nuggets (23-10)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Where: Rocket Arena &#8211; Cleveland, OH<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">When: Friday, Jan. 2 at 7:30 pm EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">TV: Amazon Prime Video, FanDuel Sports Network Ohio, FanDuel Sports Network App<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Point spread: Cavs -13.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Cavs injury report: Sam Merrill &#8211; QUESTIONABLE (left ankle sprain), De\u2019Andre Hunter &#8211; QUESTIONABLE (illness), Larry Nance Jr. &#8211; OUT (calf), Max Strus &#8211; OUT (foot), Chris Livingston &#8211; OUT (G League), Luke Travers &#8211; OUT (G League)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Nuggets injury report: Niola Jokic &#8211; OUT (knee), Tamar Bates &#8211; OUT (foot), Christian Braun &#8211; OUT (ankle), Aaron Gordon &#8211; OUT (hamstring), Cameron Johnson &#8211; OUT (knee), Jamal Murray &#8211; PROBABLE (ANKLE), jUSTIN sTRAWTHER &#8211; PROBABLE (illness), Jonas Valanciunas &#8211; (OUT) calf)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Cavs expected starting lineup: Darius Garland, Donovan Mitchell, Dean Wade, Evan Mobley, Jarrett Allen<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Nuggets expected starting lineup: Jamal Murray, Jalen Pickett, Spencer Jones, Peyton Watson, DaRon Holmes II<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Previous matchup: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fearthesword.com\/2024\/12\/27\/24330670\/cavaliers-led-by-donovan-mitchell-outscore-nuggets-149-135\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Cavs defeated the Nuggets 149-135 on the road<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who: Cleveland Cavaliers (19-16) vs. Denver Nuggets (23-10) Where: Rocket Arena &#8211; Cleveland, OH When: Friday, Jan. 2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,148,301,187,3943,6,302],"class_list":{"0":"post-510923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavs-injury-report","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-nuggets","12":"tag-denvernuggets","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nuggets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115823082402952617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510923","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=510923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}