Overview
- On Friday the 76ers erased a 29-point deficit to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 114-106, with Tyrese Maxey scoring 32 points and LeBron James finishing with 17 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists.
- Reports call the comeback the largest in franchise tracking since the NBA began detailed play-by-play records and one of the worst collapses for Cleveland, though sources disagree slightly on which historical cutoff to use.
- The same night the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Denver Nuggets 96-84, ending Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s streak of 141 straight regular-season games with 20 or more points and exposing Denver’s 22 turnovers and cold shooting from Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray.
- Denver faces an immediate health question after Cam Johnson suffered a right-ankle injury in the game and is to be evaluated, a development that could affect the team’s rotation going forward.
- Off the court LeBron publicly replied to a social-media criticism from President Donald Trump about his pregame behavior, keeping the player’s early Philadelphia tenure prominent in national discussion.