The Cleveland Cavaliers prolonged their finest begin to an NBA season with a tenth successive victory by beating the Golden State Warriors 136-117.
Darius Garland scored a game-high 27 factors for the Cavs, who turned solely the fifteenth staff to start out with a 10-0 document.
Cleveland dominated from the outset and led 83-42 at half-time, with Stephen Curry managing simply 12 factors for the Warriors whose five-game successful streak was halted.
“10-0 is a magic quantity,” Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson stated. “We’re taking part in actually good basketball and I am simply actually happy the place the group is.
“I used to be fearful about tonight – they’re 7-1 and rolling and so they’re coming in right here, they’re champions and they will try to knock our block off.
“The best way we got here out tonight – that stunned me, how prepared we had been, how hungry we had been.”
Elsewhere, Jayson Tatum scored 33 factors as reigning champions the Boston Celtics earned a 108-104 additional time win towards the Brooklyn Nets.
Boston, who suffered a primary loss of their earlier sport towards the Warriors, didn’t lead till the fourth quarter earlier than sealing the victory in additional time after the match was tied 94-94 on the finish of regular time.
The Phoenix Suns edged previous the Dallas Mavericks 114-113 with Jusuf Nurkic netting a match-winning free throw with 0.8 seconds left.
The Los Angeles Lakers bounced again from 4 defeats in 5 on the street to beat the Philadelphia 76ers 116-106 at residence.
Anthony Davis scored 31 factors for the Lakers whereas LeBron James recorded the 114th triple-double of his profession with 21 factors, 13 assists and 12 rebounds.