REACTION: The Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Hornets, are 15-0 & tie the 2nd best start in NBA HISTORY

CLEVELAND — Darius Garland scored 25 points, Ty Jerome matched his career high with 24 in place of Donovan Mitchell, and the Cleveland Cavaliers stayed unbeaten with a 128-114 win over the Charlotte Hornets on Sunday night.

The Cavs are the fourth team to start 15-0 and are tied for the second-best start to a season in NBA history, trailing only the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors (24-0). The Warriors set the league record by winning their first 24 games on the way to a 73-9 season.

The 2015-16 Warriors, 1993-94 Houston Rockets (started 15-0) and 1948-49 Washington Capitols (15-0) all made the NBA Finals.

Evan Mobley had 23 points and 11 rebounds, and Jarrett Allen had 21 points and 15 rebounds for Cleveland, marking the second time the Cavaliers have had four 20-point scorers in consecutive games in franchise history, and the first time since 1972.

Longest Win Streaks To Begin Season

The Cavaliers are 15-0, tied for the second-best start to a season in NBA history, trailing only the 2015-16 Warriors (24-0).

Team Wins
2015-16 Warriors 24
2024-25 Cavaliers 15
1993-94 Rockets 15
1948-49 Capitols 15
2002-03 Mavericks 14
1957-58 Celtics 14
— ESPN Research
Although they wanted to keep their winning streak alive, the Cavs felt getting Mitchell rest was more important. It’s a long season with bigger games ahead, and first-year coach Kenny Atkinson, who has yet to lose with Cleveland, said sticking to the plan with Mitchell was a priority.

The Cavaliers barely missed a beat without Mitchell, who was coming off a season-high 37-point performance. One of the many pluses during the winning streak is that it’s allowing Atkinson to further develop his bench.

Cleveland shot 67% (26-of-39) in the first half. Jerome tied a career best with eight assists.

LaMelo Ball had 31 points and 12 assists, and Miles Bridges scored 19 for the Hornets.

The Cavaliers will look to move to 16-0 on Tuesday against the defending NBA champion Boston Celtics. This is the fourth time in NBA history a team on a win streak of 15-plus games faces off against the defending NBA champion, and the first time since the Chicago Bulls faced the Rockets in 1996. One of these instances came in 1972, when the Los Angeles Lakers saw their NBA-record 33-game win streak come to an end against the Milwaukee Bucks.

ESPN Research and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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21 comments

  3. WHAT A GAME!!!! WHAT A SEASON!!!! Also, it made me so happy to hear that Max is involved in the coaching and drawing up plays! My friends and I were wondering why he hasn't been at the games and were wondering if he went to CHItown to recover. SO happy to hear that he's here and heavily involved!!!!! Can't wait to have him back! GO CAVS!!! On to Boston!!!!

  4. GO CAVALIERS 15-0🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

  5. Can we send the BROWNS to the Canadian Football League and the 2024 Grey Cup Champion Toronto Argonauts come play in Cleveland? They'd DAMN sure be better to watch than this current shit show the team has been all season

  10. JB Bickerstaff has to feel like an idiot right now. This is like the guy who has the girlfriend that he never allows to wear makeup or decent clothes. Later they breakup and that same guy turns on the TV months later and sees that Ex girlfriend looking drop dead gorgeous starring on his favorite TV show. 😂😂😂💯💯💯

  11. I'm proud of this team. I remember the 27 game losing streak and to see this is just phenomenal. We deserve success and not the garbage slop that is browns football.

  12. Mikey McNuggets, YOU ARE THE BEST! Love your passion, knowledge and all your Cav's coverage. I go back to The Miracle of Richfield years. No one in Cleveland media has ever matched your enthusiasm, knowledge, etc., covering the Cav's.

  16. I don't think they played that well yet they still won and almost put up 130 points. They were not rebounding as well as The Hornets who had way too many offensive rebounds which gave them too many second chances and they turned over the ball too much. And again they still won. I can confidently say that Ty Jerome could start on 20 or more teams in the NBA. They are obviously going to lose at some point but I really hope it doesn't happen againt Boston. To beat Boston they need to clean up their game a bit and hope that Dean Wade, Sam Merrill and especially Isaac Okoro are available. All 3 of them along with Max Strus being injured hurts our depth. Go Cavaliers and get Boston so maybe just maybe Cleveland will finally get some respect nationally.

  19. Phenomenal on-the-spot coverage of the game, MM! Way to get those historical achievements and game stats to us so quickly. I always look forward to hear your analysis of the games. I agree that the national media will no longer be able to avoid giving us priority coverage should we beat the Celts on Tuesday night. Like Thanos likes to say, “The Cavs are inevitable”. 😜

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