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Unbeaten Cavs now perfect 10 in postseason
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OVERSHADOWED as Golden State shot down history during the NBA regular season, the Cavaliers are making this postseason their own.
Perfectly.
LeBron James recorded a triple-double and Cleveland improved to 10-0 in the playoffs with a 108-89 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Thursday in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals.
James had 23 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists as the Cavaliers became the fourth team to start the postseason with 10 straight wins, joining the Los Angeles Lakers (1989, 2001) and San Antonio Spurs (2012). Playing at a different level than the rest of the field, the Cavaliers are now two wins from appearing in their second straight NBA finals and trying to end Cleveland’s 52-year sports championship drought.
Kyrie Irving scored 26 and Kevin Love 19 for the host Cleveland, which swept Detroit and Atlanta and has beaten Toronto by a combined 50 points in two games.
“I don’t think it feels like a streak,” James said of the Cavaliers’ rampage through the playoffs. “It feels like we won one game, we won the next game. We’ve taken one step at a time.”
The Raptors managed to hang around longer than in Game 1, when they were blown out by 31. But Toronto lacks the necessary firepower to stay with a Cleveland team playing its best basketball this season.
Game 3 is tomorrow in Toronto, where Raptors All-Star guard Kyle Lowry can only hope the rims at Air Canada Centre are kinder than the ones in Quicken Loans Arena.
Lowry scored 10 points and is shooting 8 of 28 from the field, including 1 of 15 on 3-pointers in the series.
James moved past Shaquille O’Neal into fourth place on the career postseason scoring list, with 5,255 points. Next on the list are Kobe Bryant (5,640), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (5,762) and Michael Jordan (5,987).
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