Cleveland Cavaliers @ New York Knicks

9-10, 3-6 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Cavaliers CLE	17	16	22	26	81
Knicks NY	19	28	25	30	102

New York KnicksKnicksNY

9-11, 4-4 Home

102

9-11, 4-4 Home

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
Larry Nance Jr.L. Nance Jr.#22
Isaac OkoroI. Okoro#35
Andre DrummondA. Drummond#3
Collin SextonC. Sexton#2
Darius GarlandD. Garland#10
bench
Taurean PrinceT. Prince#12
Dean WadeD. Wade#32
Cedi OsmanC. Osman#16
Jarrett AllenJ. Allen#31
Dylan WindlerD. Windler#9
JaVale McGeeJ. McGee#6
Damyean DotsonD. Dotson#21
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
29	2	1-9	0-5	0-0	8	0	0	1	1	1	7	2	-2
32	5	1-4	0-1	3-4	3	2	2	0	0	1	2	4	+2
24	4	2-7	0-0	0-0	15	2	2	2	2	4	11	0	+1
35	17	6-18	0-4	5-6	1	5	2	0	0	1	0	2	-10
29	24	9-17	4-6	2-2	3	1	4	2	0	1	2	2	-7
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
22	3	1-7	1-1	0-0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	-12
6	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	-4
17	3	1-7	1-4	0-0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	-28
26	15	5-8	0-0	5-6	9	3	1	1	1	5	4	2	-22
20	8	3-5	2-4	0-0	3	0	1	0	1	0	3	3	-23
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	81	29-84	8-26	15-18	43	15	14	8	5	14	29	20
		35%	31%	83%

New York Knicks

starters
Julius RandleJ. Randle#30
RJ BarrettR. Barrett#9
Mitchell RobinsonM. Robinson#23
Alec BurksA. Burks#18
Elfrid PaytonE. Payton#6
bench
Taj GibsonT. Gibson#67
Kevin Knox IIK. Knox II#20
Obi ToppinO. Toppin#1
Nerlens NoelN. Noel#3
Austin RiversA. Rivers#8
Immanuel QuickleyI. Quickley#5
Ignas BrazdeikisI. Brazdeikis#17
Dennis Smith Jr.D. Smith Jr.#4
Frank NtilikinaF. Ntilikina#11
Theo PinsonT. Pinson#21
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
35	16	7-13	0-2	2-3	8	6	2	1	1	0	8	2	+14
40	24	8-19	2-5	6-7	4	2	3	2	0	0	4	5	+27
22	6	2-3	0-0	2-2	4	1	2	1	3	2	2	5	-6
24	7	3-5	1-2	0-0	6	1	0	0	0	0	6	1	+4
23	2	1-6	0-1	0-0	1	3	2	1	0	0	1	1	+2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+3
8	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-6
13	5	2-4	1-3	0-0	3	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	+7
25	4	1-2	0-0	2-2	6	0	1	0	1	2	4	4	+24
24	13	6-11	1-6	0-0	3	3	1	3	0	1	2	1	+17
25	25	9-17	5-8	2-2	5	3	2	0	0	3	2	4	+19
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	102	39-80	10-27	14-16	41	20	13	8	6	8	33	24
		49%	37%	88%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Matchups

CLE

NY wins season

2-1

Game 1@ CLE

Final

106

Game 2@ CLE

Final

103

Game 3@ NY

Final

102

Game Information

New York, NY

Referee:Bill Kennedy

Referee:Ray Acosta

Referee:Evan Scott

Eastern Conference

Central	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Detroit	60	22	.732	-	W3
Cleveland	52	30	.634	8	W1
Milwaukee	32	50	.390	28	L1
Chicago	31	51	.378	29	L2
Indiana	19	63	.232	41	L2

Atlantic	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Boston	56	26	.683	-	W2
New York	53	29	.646	3	L1
Toronto	46	36	.561	10	W1
Philadelphia	45	37	.549	11	W2
Brooklyn	20	62	.244	36	L3

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