Four Records Broken by Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday Night vs. Trail Blazers

Kyrie Irving is a beast at the point. You do the math.

Love scored a career-high 51 points while playing for Minnesota on March 23, 2012. He would have too if Kyrie Irving hadn’t gotten trigger-happy at the end of the quarter, hunting for his own shot instead of letting Love ride out his heat.

LeBron James had 19 points, 11 assists and five rebounds in 29 minutes of action while Tristan Thompson grabbed 12 boards to go along with his 11 points.

All of this, mind you, was in three quarters of work.

The Magic used a 9-4 run in the last 2:30 to pull to 88-85 with 18.3 seconds to go, but that was as close as they would come.

“I’m amazed every time at the shots he makes”.

Injuries have taken a toll on Dallas, but it’s arguably been worse for the Mavericks than this one. Overall, 63 of those 117 points were from 3-pointers. Mavericks G Deron Williams returned to the lineup after missing eight games with a strained left calf. For some reason, the Mavericks have often played well in Cleveland, going a respectable 14-21 there, although much of that was built in the pre-LeBron days.

CLEVELAND – The Cavaliers set an National Basketball Association record by becoming the first team to have back-to-back regular-season games with 20 3-pointers, according to Elias Sports Bureau research.

Cleveland also set a franchise with 20 three-pointers and showed no signs of being rusty on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) in their first game in five days.

The Cavs led by 20 after one, a reminder of how immediately this one turned hilarious, or ugly, depending on the side.

The Cavaliers, whose entire team will attend Saturday’s college football game between Ohio State and MI, didn’t let up. Instead, the 6-foot-11 center has now added shot blocking skills to his already tremendous rebounding skills. Cleveland guard J.R. Smith stripped Gerald Henderson of the ball on a drive to the basket in the closing seconds, a play on which the 76ers argued for a foul, to no avail. Russell has missed two of the past three games. He’s the 11th active player with at least 1,000 games. Love would eventually finish the contest with 40 points, his high-water mark as a Cavalier.

Love could have matched Thompson for the quarter-scoring mark but clanked a 3-point shot off the rim with 75 seconds remaining in the opening period.

Cleveland forward Channing Frye will not be with the team Sunday, as his father, Tommy, died on Thanksgiving.