{"id":538003,"date":"2026-01-15T09:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/538003\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:14:18","slug":"maxey-76ers-to-host-mitchell-and-the-cavaliers-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/538003\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxey, 76ers to host Mitchell and the Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (23-19, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (22-17, fifth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Philadelphia; Friday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: 76ers -1.5; over\/under is 237.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Cavaliers visit Tyrese Maxey<\/a> and the Philadelphia 76ers in Eastern Conference action Friday.<\/p>\n

The 76ers have gone 17-14 against Eastern Conference teams. Philadelphia ranks eighth in the NBA<\/a> with 12.3 offensive rebounds per game led by Andre Drummond<\/a> averaging 3.4 offensive boards.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are 15-13 in Eastern Conference play. Cleveland is fourth in the NBA scoring 120.1 points per game while shooting 47.2%.<\/p>\n

The 76ers average 116.8 points per game, 0.7 fewer points than the 117.5 the Cavaliers allow. The Cavaliers are shooting 47.2% from the field, 0.8% higher than the 46.4% the 76ers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the third time this season. The Cavaliers won 133-107 in the last matchup on Jan. 15.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: VJ Edgecombe<\/a> is averaging 15.9 points, 5.3 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 1.6 steals for the 76ers. Maxey is averaging 29.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jaylon Tyson<\/a> is shooting 51.3% and averaging 12.8 points for the Cavaliers. Sam Merrill<\/a> is averaging 3.3 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: 76ers: 6-4, averaging 119.1 points, 41.9 rebounds, 23.4 assists, 9.4 steals and 6.5 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: 6-4, averaging 119.8 points, 44.1 rebounds, 31.4 assists, 8.8 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 49.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: 76ers: Dominick Barlow: day to day (back).<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: Max Strus: out (foot), Dean Wade: day to day (knee), Darius Garland<\/a>: day to day (foot), Sam Merrill: day to day (hand).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers (23-19, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (22-17, fifth in the Eastern Conference) Philadelphia;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,305,193,3846,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-538003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavaliers","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115898356224658310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538003","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=538003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}