Cleveland left no doubt on the way to Round 2, and the most unequal series in the history of the NBA playoffs ended.
Donovan Mitchell scored 22 points, De’Andre Hunter added 19 and the Rolled Cavaliers fit the Miami Heat 138-83 on Monday night to sweep his first round series of the East Conference in four games.
Ty Jerome had 18 points, Evan Mobley added 17 and Jarrett Allen had 14 points, 12 rebounds and six stealing for the Cavaliers, who led up to 60 points.
Cleveland won the four games for 122 points combined. The previous record: a combined victory of 121 Denver points over New Orleans in 2009.
The margin of 55 points in game 4 was the fourth largest playoff victory in history. The record of the biggest victory in the playoffs is 58 points, made twice: Minneapolis about St. Louis in 1956 and Denver about New Orleans in 2009. The Los Angeles Lakers beat Golden State for 56 points in 1973.
The cavs approached. Pelle Larsson kept Miami of that piece of ignominious history. He made a triple to cut Cleveland’s advantage to 55 with approximately 38 seconds removering.
Nikola Jovic led the heat with 24 points. Ban Adebayo scored 13 and Andrew Wiggins added 12 for Miami.
Cleveland will play Indiana or Milwaukee in the semifinals of the Eastern Conference. The Pacers lead that series 3-1; Regardless of whether the Pacers or Bucks advance, game 1 of that series would be in Cleveland and would not play until Saturday as soon as possible.
This is the third instance that Miami swept into a series of the best of seven. The others: against Chicago in 2007 and against Milwaukee in 2021, both in the first round and both also end on the floor of the heat house.
It ended quickly. Cleveland, who used an early race of 33-5 to blow the 3-year game 3-14 leaders at the end of the first quarter before Davion Mitchell beat the bell with a triple. The 26 -point margin coincided with the worst quarter in the history of heat playoffs; It was the second best margin for any room in the history of the Cavs playoffs.
And lead just growing.
It looked like a 64 -winning team that led East Wire to face a tenth finalist who needed to win two game games just to enter the tournament.
Cleveland’s advantage was 39-72-33-in half, the third largest advantage after two rooms in the history of the NBA playoffs. The only half time takes a bigger than that: Cleveland for 41 on Boston on May 19, 2017 and Detroit for 40 on Washington on April 26, 1987.
Associated Press reports.
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