Overview
- Cleveland edged Charlotte 118-113, keeping Dennis Schröder unbeaten in six games since joining the Cavaliers.
- Schröder logged 8 points, 3 assists and 3 steals, including a key scoring burst late in the third quarter.
- The Cavaliers have won 12 of their last 13 to reach 36-21 and third place in the Eastern Conference.
- Orlando lost 113-110 in double overtime to Phoenix on Jalen Green’s buzzer-beater while Franz Wagner remains out indefinitely with an ankle injury.
- Earlier in the week Orlando crushed Sacramento 131-94, handing the Kings a 15th straight defeat, as Denver set this season’s single-game scoring mark with a 157-103 win over Portland behind Nikola Jokic’s 32 points.