{"id":703785,"date":"2026-04-07T17:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703785\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:55:14","slug":"cavaliers-move-within-one-game-of-third-place-with-win-over-grizzlies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703785\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers Move Within One Game of Third-Place With Win Over Grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/cavaliers\/onsi\/news\/why-cleveland-cavaliers-can-t-hesitate-to-trust-james-harden-in-nba-playoffs-01kna9fmhqny\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> defeated the Memphis Grizzlies 142-126 last night in Memphis. With the win, the Cavaliers improved to 50-29, and have officially won 50 games in back to back seasons. The Cavaliers road record improved to 25-15. The win marked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/cavaliers\/onsi\/news\/kenny-atkinson-reveals-who-he-truly-credits-for-cavs-clinching-nba-playoffs-01kn9fp1k9hp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cavaliers third in a row<\/a> since losing on March 31 in Los Angeles to the Lakers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers 50-29 record is good enough to be in fourth-place in the Eastern Conference, although they are quickly gaining ground on the third-place New York Knicks and currently sit one game behind them with three games to play.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCavaliers Started Slowly in First Quarter<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers got off to an extremely sloppy start, and points were hard to come by. The Grizzlies managed to outscore them 36-24 in the first quarter. <\/p>\n<p>Cavs stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/cavaliers\/onsi\/news\/james-harden-s-impact-on-cavs-evident-in-win-over-pacers-01knhv7pnc1d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Harden<\/a> and Donovan Mitchell did not feature in this game as it was the back-end of a back to back. The Cavaliers were able to pick themselves up off the mat and battled back to outscore the Grizzlies 44-28 to take a 68-64 lead into the halftime break.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grizzlies tie NBA Record for Three Point Makes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Memphis Grizzlies 142-126 last night in Memphis. With the win, the Cavaliers improved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,293,177,4070,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-703785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-grizzlies","10":"tag-memphis","11":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","12":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116364714176210183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703785","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=703785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}