Will LeBron James play in Indy this season?

“I just chose to rest him”, he said. “In Year 1 of us playing together, we didn’t really know how to do that”.

“I’m just going off what my strength-and-conditioning coach as well as the team and our medical staff feels is best”, Irving said. Cleveland, 9-1, is sitting atop the Eastern Conference standings.

At shootaround, DeRozan had been asked for about the 10th time about his incredible scoring run to start the season and the company he is keeping with each 30-point outburst.

James is now playing an average of 37 minutes per game.

Cleveland (9-2) played without James (23.4 points), who was resting, and J.R. Smith (10.5), who has a right ankle sprain. Love didn’t shoot great (5-of-16), but had an assist on a handsome “throw me open” pass to LeBron james on an excellent play drawn up by coach Tyronn Lue to seal the game. “We flew commercial. It’s just a whole different game”.

Or does it matter? Love scored a season-high 27 points Wednesday and grabbed 16 rebounds, and Irving scored 24 points.

“We would cut the lead to four of five and then commit a turnover”, Love said.

Toronto’s Kyle Lowry scored 28 points and DeMar DeRozan added 26. IN built an early 15-9 lead on the back on an 11-0 run and the gap would reach 11 by the end of the first quarter.

In the fourth quarter alone, Frye drained three three-pointers off of high pick-and-rolls with LeBron James – who is handling the ball and is also the power forward in Cleveland’s lineup.

“Of course it’s different”, Miles said about facing the Cavaliers without James. As a result, we like the Pacers’ prospects of enhancing that home mark even further.

“The second quarter was great, one of the best quarters we’ve played”, said Golden State coach Steve Kerr. (But) we can’t disrespect anybody. “When our guys got the news he was not playing, my concern was a letdown”.

Dwyane Wade had 19 points for Chicago, which extended its modest winning streak to three games.

IN is 5-1 at home but has not won on the road.

The Cavaliers’ only other visit to Indianapolis this season is February 8, so the question is: Should fans spend hundreds of dollars ahead of time to ensure they have tickets to a game James may not play in? We’ve had certain lapses in our first 10 games that we need to clean up.

National Basketball Association games last 48 minutes, though. The Raptors are now 3-8 vs. the East’s top team since the start of previous year counting the playoffs.

Hoosiers screenwriter Angelo Pizzo, director David Anspaugh and some of the film’s actors, including Maris Valainis (who played Jimmy Chitwood) will be in attendance.

None of the backup bigs played much, and Big Al only had 2 points and a rebound to show for his 7 minutes of work. Unfortunately, they were never able to get any closer than a few points each time before the Pacers moved the lead back up.

Cavaliers: Host Detroit on Friday night, then have a four-day break.

However, with good teams, someone or the other always deliver and takes their game to the next level.

A 6-0 Pacers’ run, capped by a Thaddeus Young layup with 5:38 remaining, pushed Indiana’s lead to 94-84. Totals 35-86 12-20 93. Totals 43-86 7-11 103.

James set the table and Frye bombed away, but it was Irving – whose 3-point dagger proved the difference-maker in the season’s first meeting between these teams – who catalyzed the Cavs midway through the final frame. Cleveland was shooting only 40.6 percent (28 of 69). Technicals-Indiana defensive three second, Indiana team.