Cavaliers Rally to Win; Extend Lead in Eastern Conference

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00:00Cleveland Cavaliers last night at home when there's a four of their last five

00:03after an uncharacteristic four-game skid about two weeks ago. Booked as a

00:09double-digit home favorite against the Jalen Brunson-Less New York Knicks who

00:13have struggled against the top competition this season in general. New

00:17York jumps out to a 15-point lead midway through the second quarter. They led by

00:22seven at the break only for the Cavaliers to rally in the second half to

00:28win by 19 points 124-105 and still find their way to a cover as a ten-and-a-half

00:35point home favorite. The Cavaliers back on track they have won five of their

00:40last six extending their lead for that one spot in the Eastern Conference now

00:45to five games over the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks. DRS Jalen

00:49Brunson in the lineup or not continue to mightily struggle against the best

00:54competition in their own side of the Association. New York now 0-3

00:58against Cleveland, 0-3 against Boston, 0-6 straight up and against the

01:03number against both the Seas and the Cavs this season. Yeah Jalen Brunson with

01:08the longest you know recovery time in the history of professional sports with

01:12an ankle injury where they tell us we don't want him at 99.8 we want him at

01:15full a hundred percent and you're right about this like and what we watch the

01:19football like down the stretch in December there are meaningless games

01:22but nobody ever says can we just fast-forward to the playoffs when you

01:25hit week 14 now we love it every single night and every single weekend like in

01:29the NBA we were just waiting for the playoffs with these meaningless games

01:33down the stretch like hey let's see what happens here in the Cleveland forgot

01:36about this game we're gonna blow the Knicks out oh no we're down almost 20

01:39points here let's start to play basketball and then beat the Knicks by

01:4220 points it's still NBA basketball it's still on TV we'll watch it we'll still

01:46handicap and bet but it's the only sport it feels like to me outside of baseball's

01:51final two weeks which take place in football season we just need to see the

01:55playoffs because I think the energy returns like the Knicks in a playoff

01:58game versus the Cavaliers we're all over that Ben that's three and four segments

02:01in a day what's gonna happen here ebbs and flows are you gonna bet on one night

02:05here can they come back the next night when they had a bad performance three

02:08nights previous those are fun nights it's amazing how the NBA has a

02:10meaningless regular season and then we get excited again for the what two

02:15months two and a half month run in the playoffs where we finally see a

02:18competitive basketball on a night-to-night basis