Cavaliers 93-87 Nuggets (30 Dec, 2015) Box Score

Cleveland Cavaliers

21-9, 8-8 away

	1	2	3	4	T
CLE	26	27	19	21	93
DEN	21	21	20	25	87

Denver Nuggets

12-20, 5-10 home

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
Kevin LoveK. Love#0
LeBron JamesL. James#23
Tristan ThompsonT. Thompson#13
Matthew DellavedovaM. Dellavedova#8
JR SmithJ. Smith#5
bench
Richard JeffersonR. Jefferson#24
Timofey MozgovT. Mozgov#20
Mo WilliamsM. Williams#52
James JonesJ. Jones#1
Iman ShumpertI. Shumpert#4
Jared CunninghamJ. Cunningham#9
Anderson VarejaoA. Varejao#17
Sasha KaunS. Kaun#14
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
36	4-16	0-5	0-2	1	13	14	1	2	0	1	2	+16	8
34	13-24	1-3	7-8	3	3	6	2	2	1	5	2	+3	34
35	4-7	0-0	1-6	2	5	7	0	1	1	0	1	+4	9
29	1-5	0-1	2-2	1	6	7	5	2	0	2	2	+16	4
26	4-11	1-6	2-2	0	2	2	3	2	0	0	1	+5	11
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
13	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	-4	0
15	2-5	0-1	0-0	1	3	4	0	0	0	1	4	-3	4
19	3-4	0-0	1-2	0	1	1	4	1	0	3	2	-10	7
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+2	0
31	7-13	2-5	0-0	1	2	3	2	2	0	0	1	-1	16
2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+2	0
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	38-86	4-22	13-22	9	35	44	17	12	3	12	16		93
	44.2%	18.2%	59.1%

Denver Nuggets

starters
Kenneth FariedK. Faried#35
Joffrey LauvergneJ. Lauvergne#77
Kostas PapanikolaouK. Papanikolaou#16
Gary HarrisG. Harris#14
Jameer NelsonJ. Nelson#1
bench
Darrell ArthurD. Arthur#00
Nikola JokicN. Jokic#15
Mike MillerM. Miller#3
Randy FoyeR. Foye#4
Will BartonW. Barton#5
JJ HicksonJ. Hickson#7
Jusuf NurkicJ. Nurkic#23
Emmanuel MudiayE. Mudiay#0
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
28	4-8	0-0	1-2	3	5	8	0	1	0	0	3	+1	9
24	7-12	0-2	0-0	3	4	7	3	1	0	4	1	-15	14
22	0-3	0-2	0-0	1	4	5	1	0	0	2	2	-8	0
33	5-13	1-6	1-2	1	6	7	2	2	0	2	2	+1	12
24	0-6	0-1	0-0	0	4	4	8	1	1	1	2	-9	0
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
20	3-6	0-1	0-0	1	2	3	0	1	2	1	1	-7	6
22	4-11	0-0	2-3	2	5	7	1	1	1	2	6	+4	10
7	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	-1	0
25	3-9	1-3	0-0	0	3	3	2	1	0	1	2	+3	7
34	11-20	3-8	4-4	0	7	7	1	0	2	3	0	+1	29
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	37-89	5-24	8-11	12	40	52	18	8	6	18	19		87
	41.6%	20.8%	72.7%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Regular Season Series

CLE leads 1-0

Cavaliers
93
Nuggets
87

Game 1

30/12

Nuggets
91
Cavaliers
124

Game 2

21/3

Ball Arena

2:00 AM, 30 December 2015

Denver, CO

Attendance: 17,523

Referees:
Derrick Stafford
James Williams
Kevin Cutler

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Cleveland	26	4	.867	-	W5
Milwaukee	16	12	.571	9	W2
Indiana	15	15	.500	11	W5
Chicago	13	17	.433	13	L2
Detroit	13	17	.433	13	W2

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	23	5	.821	-	W8
Denver	16	11	.593	6.5	W2
Minnesota	15	14	.517	8.5	W1
Portland	9	20	.310	14.5	L2
Utah	7	21	.250	16	L1

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