Love scores 29, leads Cavaliers past Thunder 115-92

But Cavs coach Tyron Lue said there’s “no concern at all” Frye won’t be cleared to play.

The Cleveland Cavaliers have come out of the All-Star break on a mission and earned their 40th win by crushing the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday.

But in a race where a record pace is being set by the Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs, Durant’s words indicate the urgency of their situation. Now, they have beaten the Thunder, who entered the game with the league’s fourth-best mark.

James and Durant have now played each other 16 times and James has won 13.

“I’m not obviously trying to pity Dion, but I felt bad for him because I think he was really trying to play the right way”, OKC coach Billy Donovan said. “I hope so. When we play teams that are great teams, we always seem to rise for the challenge”.

From there on out the teams played just about even basketball for the rest of the half, but the effect was lasting, as it gave Cleveland the base lead it needed to respond to the Thunder’s run to start the third quarter, then blow the game open in the second half.

F Iman Shumpert sat out Sunday’s game with a sprained left shoulder.

What makes it great is that she yelled so loud that the cameras were able to pick it up. These guys step up.

Pistons: Detroit dressed only 11 players, with guards Jodie Meeks and Spencer Dinwiddie injured, and Donatas Motiejunas and Marcus Thornton unavailable due to complications with the trade that brought them to the Pistons from Houston. “If they continue to do that, they’ll be fine”. This aggressiveness earned Love several trips to the free-throw line, where he shot 11 of 12.

Admitting that he is beginning to focus in on the postseason, James scored 25 points on 11-of-19 shooting and added nine rebounds and nine assists in a 106-95 win over the Chicago Bulls at Quicken Loans Arena Thursday night.

The Cavaliers don’t normally do this – let LeBron James guard the opposing small forward if said player happens to be elite. We’re more in tune. They outscored Oklahoma City 68-45 over that stretch, including a dominant run in the final eight minutes of the third that salted the game away. Westbrook was also close to recording a triple-double with 20 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds. While it is just one game, it’s indicative of a bigger problem for this Thunder team: they don’t have the talent to get out of the Western Conference. Oklahoma City led by one after the first quarter, but the Cavaliers pulled out to a 62-53 lead by halftime. Another three by Smith made it 80-64.

By that point, the OKC offense had already began to muck up, and LeBron James began to take over in every aspect of the game. The trade involved sending Anderson Varejao to Portland.