The Cleveland Cavaliers continued their dominance with a victory over LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers, while the Boston Celtics delivered a resounding win against the Toronto Raptors.
The league-leading Cleveland Cavaliers beat LeBron James's Los Angeles Lakers 122-110 on Tuesday, as the NBA champion Boston Celtics closed out 2024 with a 125-71 demolition of the Toronto Raptors .Jarrett Allen scored 27 points and grabbed 14 rebounds, Donovan Mitchell added 26 points and Evan Mobley chipped in 20 for the Cavaliers, who notched their eighth straight win to push their league-best record to 29-4.
James, whose four NBA titles include a 2016 championship with his hometown team Cleveland, scored 23 points with four rebounds, seven assists and a blocked shot.It was his first game since his 40th birthday on Monday, and made James the first player in league history to play a game in his teens and in his 40s.Austin Reaves led the Lakers with an impressive near-triple-double of 35 points, nine rebounds and 10 assists.Anthony Davis scored 28 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, but after twice edging ahead in the second quarter the Lakers trailed by five at halftime and never led in the second half.There was less drama in Boston, where the Celtics won by the second-largest margin of victory in franchise history — trailing only their 56-point triumph at Chicago in December 2018.Jayson Tatum scored 18 of his 23 points in the third quarter, when the Celtics out-scored the Raptors 45-18 to effectively put the game out of reach.Payton Pritchard scored 19 points off the bench as seven Celtics players scored in double figures.The Celtics connected on 22 of their 43 three-point attempts as they handed the Raptors an 11th straight defeat.Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said the big win — after the Celtics dropped four of their last six games — was just part of the process as the Celtics try to repeat as champions.'There's still stuff that we've got to work on... we've just got to continue to be better,' Mazzulla sai
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