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Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (52-30, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors<\/a> (46-36, fifth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Toronto; Sunday, 1 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Cavaliers -3.5; over\/under is 220.5<\/p>\n

EASTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Cavaliers lead series 2-1<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Cavaliers visit the Toronto Raptors in the Eastern Conference first round with a 2-1 lead in the series. The Raptors won the last meeting 126-104 on Friday, led by 33 points from Scottie Barnes<\/a>. James Harden<\/a> led the Cavaliers with 18.<\/p>\n

The Raptors are 33-19 in conference matchups. Toronto has a 7-4 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are 33-19 in Eastern Conference play. Cleveland averages 119.5 points while outscoring opponents by 4.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Raptors are shooting 48.2% from the field this season, 1.8 percentage points higher than the 46.4% the Cavaliers allow to opponents. The Cavaliers average 14.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.8 more made shots on average than the 12.5 per game the Raptors give up.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Barnes is averaging 18.1 points, 7.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 1.5 blocks for the Raptors. RJ Barrett<\/a> is averaging 20.3 points and 3.4 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Harden is averaging 23.6 points and eight assists for the Cavaliers. Donovan Mitchell<\/a> is averaging 18.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Raptors: 5-5, averaging 116.8 points, 38.9 rebounds, 29.4 assists, 8.1 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 52.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: 7-3, averaging 118.9 points, 42.5 rebounds, 26.3 assists, 8.3 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 50.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.3 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Raptors: Immanuel Quickley: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: None listed.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers (52-30, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (46-36, fifth in the Eastern Conference) Toronto;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1481,4723,2708,4720,1289,2145,1329,48,1287],"class_list":{"0":"post-19091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","9":"tag-donovan-mitchell","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-james-harden","12":"tag-national-basketball-association","13":"tag-rj-barrett","14":"tag-scottie-barnes","15":"tag-toronto","16":"tag-toronto-raptors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}