{"id":590123,"date":"2026-02-08T08:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/590123\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T08:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:16:20","slug":"cavaliers-face-the-nuggets-aim-for-4th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/590123\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers face the Nuggets, aim for 4th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (32-21, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets<\/a> (34-19, third in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Denver; Monday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Cleveland will try to prolong its three-game win streak with a victory against Denver.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are 14-10 in home games. Denver is ninth in the league with 28.0 assists per game. Jamal Murray<\/a> leads the Nuggets averaging 7.5.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are 15-10 on the road. Cleveland has a 1-3 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets make 49.5% of their shots from the field this season, which is 3.0 percentage points higher than the Cavaliers have allowed to their opponents (46.5%). The Cavaliers average 119.7 points per game, 3.4 more than the 116.3 the Nuggets allow.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time this season. The Cavaliers won the last meeting 113-108 on Jan. 3, with Donovan Mitchell<\/a> scoring 33 points in the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Tim Hardaway Jr. is scoring 14.0 points per game and averaging 2.7 rebounds for the Nuggets. Murray is averaging 23.4 points and 3.3 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jarrett Allen<\/a> is scoring 14.3 points per game and averaging 8.1 rebounds for the Cavaliers. Mitchell is averaging 27.6 points and 3.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nuggets: 5-5, averaging 114.7 points, 43.1 rebounds, 26.7 assists, 7.1 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: 8-2, averaging 118.2 points, 45.5 rebounds, 28.0 assists, 10.3 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.7 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nuggets: Spencer Jones: out (concussion), Tamar Bates<\/a>: out (foot), Aaron Gordon: out (hamstring), Peyton Watson<\/a>: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: Max Strus: out (foot), Evan Mobley<\/a>: out (calf), Dean Wade: out (ankle).<\/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 (32-21, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (34-19, third in the Western Conference) Denver;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,193,301,187,3943,864,576,78812,762,1178,1407,6,302,1146,6254,911],"class_list":["post-590123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-denver-nuggets","tag-basketball","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-denver","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-denvernuggets","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-evan-mobley","tag-event_preview","tag-jamal-murray","tag-jarrett-allen","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-nuggets","tag-peyton-watson","tag-tamar-bates","tag-tim-hardaway-jr"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116034023249130635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590123","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=590123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}