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Chris Fedor: Giannis Antetokounmpo (ankle) is QUESTIONABLE for tomorrow’s game against #Cavs — the start of Cleveland’s three-game road trip.
Grant Afseth: Final: Mavericks 120, Grizzlies 112 Khris Middleton: 35 PTS, 3 REB, 2 STL Daniel Gafford: 22 PTS, 14 REB, 1 BLK Cooper Flagg: 13 PTS, 5 REB, 7 AST Jaylen Wells: 23 PTS, 2 REB, 2 AST GG Jackson: 20 PTS, 4 REB, 3 AST Dallas (22-44) hosts Cleveland next.
It’s 2026 now, exactly ten years removed from that title. How cool is it to be on this roster now and what would it mean to you to bring another championship to Cleveland? Jaylon Tyson: You know? Nothing really surprises me now. God works in mysterious ways; especially in my life. I’ve seen it — me and my little brother… my whole family, right? So nothing really surprises me at this point. I’m super grateful for every opportunity I’ve gotten. This basketball has given me unexplainable opportunities and relationships and I just want to get all into it and one day we will be able to all do that hopefully.
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Bobby Marks: Only the 4th time Cleveland was held below 100 points this season. The last time was Jan. 21 in a 94-87 win @ Charlotte.
Get Up: "Cleveland is the most likely destination" ... "In Los Angeles right now with the Lakers, LeBron James is a guest in his own home." — @BannedMacMahon on LeBron's possible destination next season 👀
"In Los Angeles right now with the Lakers, LeBron James is a guest in his own home."
— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) March 4, 2026
—@BannedMacMahon on LeBron's possible destination next season 👀 pic.twitter.com/dsaQsjYd8v
And if James doesn’t want to play anymore, league sources remind The Athletic that those career-defining decisions — leaving Cleveland for Miami, returning home, joining the Lakers — weren’t made until well after seasons ended. While there’s a chance that James knows which way he’s leaning, one league source said James is also smart enough to know it would be foolish to make any permanent decisions in the emotional fog of an 82-game season.
Yet, sources close to Mitchell told ESPN the Cavs' star did not want the team to sit idly by during the deadline. Cleveland began to look closer at its roster construction and look for a way to maximize its chances at winning what the team still believed was a wide-open conference. "I call it the five whys," Atkinson said. "We got to look like why, why, why, why, why? You dive deeper into everything you're doing."
Cleveland snapped its two-game losing streak Sunday afternoon, holding off the pesky Brooklyn Nets, 106-102, inside Barclays Center. “We didn’t play great and I thought they played really well,” Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson said postgame. “Thought they got up under us, pressured us and forced us into a lot of turnovers. In the second half, we cleaned it up and we were a little better. Offense wasn’t great tonight. Wasn’t perfect. But we found a way.”
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Meanwhile, the Heat has yet to win another NBA championship despite playing in two NBA Finals in 2020 and 2023 following James’ exit in 2014. This season, the Heat enters Tuesday’s matchup against the Milwaukee Bucks at Fiserv Forum (8 p.m., FanDuel Sports Network Sun) in eighth place in the Eastern Conference with a 31-27 record. “I understood,” Riley said of James’ decision to leave the Heat, now seemingly at peace with the way things played out 12 years after James’ departure. “The business in the NBA is the business in the NBA. Players have an opportunity to go somewhere else, and he went to Cleveland and he won a title up there. So I wish him nothing but the best. But I’m going to be selfish here and say I wish I had him for another six or eight years. That would have been great. But we’ll never know, will we?”
Friday night's game between the Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers was delayed for 18 minutes in the third quarter by a blaring horn after a power surge caused the overhead scoreboard to malfunction. During a timeout with the Pistons leading 65-64 in a 122-119 overtime victory, the horn sounded to signal the teams to return to the floor. However, it kept blasting despite frantic work from workers at Little Caesars Arena.
Harden has helped lift the offense. He is averaging 18.9 points and 8.0 assists on 49% shooting (49% from 3) in his seven games in Cleveland, despite not having much time to get acclimated. "We got a few more notches to get to," said Harden, who finished with 20 points Tuesday. "We got what, 25 games? I think we can get there. Matter of fact, I know we can get there. I think it's going to start defensively because offensively we can have six guys in double figures ... defensive is going to be key. "If we can find a way to really hone in defensively and really get stops and limit teams to one shot, we're going to be very, very tough."
Keith Smith: Riley Minix's two-way contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers is for two seasons, a league source told @spotrac .