James Harden scored 36, Evan Mobley added 26 points and 14 rebounds and Cleveland hung on to beat the Chicago Bulls 115-110 on Thursday night at the United Center even though Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell missed the game because of a bruised left eye.<\/p>\n
Harden nailed seven 3-pointers. Jaylon Tyson chipped in with 18 points and 11 rebounds, and the Cavaliers hung on after a 29-point lead in the third quarter dwindled to one in the game\u2019s closing minutes.<\/p>\n
Bulls guard Tre Jones cut it to 103-102 when he made two free throws with 3:33 remaining. Sam Merrill answered with a 3 for the Cavs.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers were up 110-107 when Jones missed a potential tying 3 and Leonard Miller missed a layup with about a minute left. Harden hit a pull-up jumper to make it a five-point game with 33 seconds left and the Cavaliers hung on to hand the Bulls their fourth loss in five games and 17th in 21 since Feb. 1.<\/p>\n
Mitchell was hurt in a collision in practice with Mobley. The seven-time All-Star played through the injury in Milwaukee on Tuesday night and finished with 19 points on 4-for-14 shooting. He said after the game that he was having trouble seeing.<\/p>\n
Coach Kenny Atkinson said the injury is \u201cnothing serious,\u201d but the Cavaliers need to \u201clet it clear up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jones scored 20 for the Bulls, Rob Dillingham added a season-high 17 and Nick Richards finished with 16 points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Bulls: vs. Houston Rockets on Monday.
\nCavaliers: at New Orleans Pelicans on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Harden scored 36, Evan Mobley added 26 points and 14 rebounds and Cleveland hung on to beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,329,305,193,3846,560,6,7797,977,6277],"class_list":["post-668098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-basketball","tag-cavaliers","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-clevelandcavaliers","tag-james-harden","tag-nba","tag-nick-richards","tag-rob-dillingham","tag-tre-jones"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116259516826604713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668098","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=668098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}