Brooklyn at Cleveland

Cleveland led Philadelphia 69-45 at halftime on Thursday and lost 114-106. Cleveland was up 35-18 after the first quarter. Philadelphia outscored Cleveland 69-37 in the second half, and the Cavaliers made 7 of 29 threes for the game. James Harden and Donovan Mitchell turned the ball over 11 times between them, six and five, and Cleveland gave it away 21 times as a team. Mitchell scored 32, and Cleveland is 0-1. Brooklyn is 0-1 as well, after a 110-103 loss to Charlotte on Wednesday in which it trailed at the end of every quarter. Julius Randle scored 33, and Michael Porter Jr. scored 26, which is 59 of the 103 points the Nets scored. Brooklyn made 12 of 31 threes and shot 36 of 80 overall. Charlotte shot 41 of 93 overall and made 15 of 48 threes, a nine-point edge on that line in a seven-point game. Charlotte never led by more than ten, and Brooklyn is the right side on the spread tonight.