Darius Garland scored 25 factors and Donovan Mitchell added 22 because the Cleveland Cavaliers remained unbeaten with a 120-109 win over the visiting Orlando Magic on Friday.
Cleveland has received its first six video games to start out the season, matching the franchise’s finest begin since 2016-17.
Evan Mobley had 14 factors and 12 rebounds, Caris LeVert scored 13, and Jarrett Allen grabbed 11 rebounds for Cleveland, which has scored at the least 110 factors in all six video games underneath new coach Kenny Atkinson.
Cleveland led wire-to-wire in a rematch of final 12 months’s Jap Convention first-round playoff sequence, which the Cavaliers received in seven video games.
Orlando trailed by as many as 22 factors within the third quarter and misplaced its second straight sport. Jalen Suggs scored a career-high 28 factors, Franz Wagner and Tristan da Silva added 17 apiece, and Moritz Wagner had 14.
The Magic have been with out All-Star ahead Paolo Banchero, who suffered a torn proper indirect in a loss to the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday. Banchero can be re-evaluated in four-to-six weeks.
Orlando additionally performed minus Goga Bitadze (left foot tendon pressure) and Wendell Carter Jr, who was dominated out previous to the sport attributable to proper knee tendinitis.
Mitchell scored 13 factors within the first quarter to assist in giving the Cavaliers a 34-16 lead. Cleveland shot 62 % from the sector for the interval.
Orlando missed 23 consecutive 3-point makes an attempt relationship again to Wednesday’s sport at Chicago earlier than Jett Howard’s trey with just below 10 minutes left within the second quarter reduce the deficit to 36-21.
Mitchell had 17 factors within the first half to steer the Cavaliers, who took a 63-44 lead into intermission after closing on an 8-0 run.
Cleveland prolonged its result in 70-48 with 8:40 left within the third quarter earlier than Orlando battled again and pulled inside 10 factors late within the interval.
The Cavaliers closed the third quarter on an 11-4 run and maintained a double-digit lead all through the ultimate interval.
Ty Jerome chipped in 9 factors for the Cavaliers, who shot 50.6 % from the sector and 39.5 % from past the arc.
