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Cleveland Cavaliers beat New York Knicks 115-107 as James Harden scores season-high 32
James Harden hit the go-ahead three with 4:22 left on his way to a season-high 32, and the Cavaliers ended the Knicks' four-game winning streak at Madison Square Garden.
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James Harden scored a season-high 32 points, including the go-ahead three with 4:22 left, and the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the New York Knicks 115-107 at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, November 11. Cleveland ended a two-game losing streak and evened its record at 6-6. New York had won four in a row and fell to 6-5.
Harden made 9 of 14 shots, 5 of 7 threes and 9 of 11 free throws. He came into the night averaging 15.3 points, and his previous season high was 24. Donovan Mitchell added 23 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, and Jarrett Allen had 11 points and 14 rebounds, 7 of them in the final 2:18. It was Cleveland’s first game at the Garden since the Knicks swept them in last season’s Eastern Conference finals, and it came four days after New York won in Cleveland.
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Harden’s 13-point second quarter
Cleveland scored 33 points in the first quarter and led by as many as 12 when rookie Meleek Thomas hit a three for a 30-18 lead late in the period. The Knicks answered with a 13-3 run that cut it to 36-34 early in the second. Harden then made all four of his shots in the quarter, three of them threes, and scored 13 points. His step-back three with 1:43 left made it 57-51, and his two free throws with 6.1 seconds left gave the Cavaliers a 59-53 halftime lead.
New York kept coming back. A 13-3 run in the third quarter turned a 69-58 deficit into a 72-71 game, and Josh Hart was called for a technical foul with the score tied at 74. Mitchell’s 25-foot running jumper at the end of the quarter put Cleveland up 82-76.
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The finish
Miles McBride scored five straight points to open the fourth and cut the lead to 82-81. Thomas’ three made it 95-85 with 8:26 left, but the Knicks went on a 14-4 run, and Hart’s layup with 5:36 left tied the game at 99. Harden answered with a 12-foot pull-up, OG Anunoby tied it again at 101 from the line, and Harden hit a 27-foot three for a 104-101 lead.
Jalen Brunson scored inside to make it 104-103, but Evan Mobley hit a floater, Allen made two free throws and then dunked a pass from Mitchell for a 110-103 lead with 1:41 left. After Peyton Watson blocked a McBride layup with 33.7 seconds left, Allen finished a dunk off a Harden pass and made the free throw to put Cleveland up 113-105.
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Around the box
Brunson led New York with 27 points on 12-of-23 shooting. Karl-Anthony Towns had 21 points, 11 rebounds and 8 assists for his 11th straight double-double to open the season. McBride scored 19 off the bench and made 5 of 10 threes, Anunoby had 14 and Landry Shamet 12. The Knicks had 33 assists and made all 11 of their free throws, but they never led by more than two points.
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Tyrese Proctor scored 15 points off the Cleveland bench and Thomas had 14. Mobley finished with 10 points, and Watson had 4 of the Cavaliers’ 9 blocks. Cleveland shot 20 of 25 from the line to New York’s 11 of 11 and led for most of the night. Sam Merrill (elbow) did not play for the Cavaliers. Attendance was 19,812.
What’s next
Both teams play on Friday, November 13. The Knicks visit the Indiana Pacers at 7 p.m. ET (2 a.m. Saturday Cairo time), and the Cavaliers visit the Miami Heat at 8 p.m. ET (3 a.m. Saturday Cairo time).
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