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Donovan Mitchell scores 30 in Cavs' third consecutive win
Donovan Mitchell scored 30 points, Jarrett Allen added 23 while going 10 for 10 from the floor and the Cleveland Cavaliers eased to a 135-116 victory over the Washington Wizards on Saturday night. Darius Garland also had 23 points, and Evan Mobley scored 13 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as Cleveland remained perfect three games into their new season.
The Celtics’ blowout of the Knicks led the way with a 1.6 and 3.01 million, marking the most-watched early window on Opening Night since 2017, when Celtics-Cavaliers drew 5.60 million. Across both windows, it was the most-watched since Lakers-Warriors two years ago (3.55M). Ratings increased a tick and viewership 6% from Lakers-Nuggets last year (1.5, 2.84M). The Timberwolves-Lakers nightcap drew a 1.6 and 2.91 million, up a tick and 7% respectively from Suns-Warriors a year ago (1.5, 2.71M). The Lakers’ win peaked with 3.5 million viewers during the 10:30 PM ET quarter-hour, exceeding the early game peak of 3.2 million. It should be noted that viewership peaked before Lakers draft pick Bronny James — son of LeBron — took the court at around 11 ET.
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Wade’s NBA playing career lasted 16 seasons and included 13 All-Star Game selections, spending the first 13 seasons of his career with the Heat before briefly leaving amid a contract dispute to spend the 2016-17 season with the Chicago Bulls and part of the 2017-18 season with the Cleveland Cavaliers. But Wade was traded back to the Heat midway through the 2017-18 season to end his career in Miami, entering retirement at the end of the 2018-19 season. “2016 didn’t change anything about what I accomplished here and what I knew I meant to Miami,” Wade said when asked about that turbulent time in his relationship with the Heat. “As I always say, and everybody can identity with this, the Miami Heat is a family. But with family, there are times when you have people in your family when you go through things. You go through moments when you’re not talking to each other, you’re not communicating, you’re not agreeing. But you’re going to go through other moments, as well, and we’ve had so many moments. That was one that played out in front of everyone. But that one moment, for me, will never determine my relationship with anyone. I’m not built like that.”
Marc Stein: Landry Shamet and Matt Ryan, players the Knicks are known to covet when they take their roster from 12 to 14, are both eligible for Saturday’s @nbagleague draft, sources say. Westchester owns the top two picks; drafting Shamet enables the Knicks to supervise his shoulder rehab.
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