{"id":484734,"date":"2026-01-01T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T12:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/484734\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T12:39:11","slug":"cup-of-cavs-news-and-links-for-thursday-jan-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/484734\/","title":{"rendered":"Cup of Cavs: News and links for Thursday, Jan. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Good morning, it\u2019s the first day of 2026. The <a href=\"http:\/\/fearthesword.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Cavaliers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> are 19-16 and host the Denver Nuggets tomorrow. They beat the Phoenix Suns yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Game of the Day<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Boston Celtics at Sacramento Kings \u2013 10 PM, NBA League Pass<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\">The Celtics have won 7 of their last 10 games and are on the road against the 8-25 Kings. This matchup might not be super competitive if Boston continues their hot streak, but it\u2019s worth checking out as there aren\u2019t many other games on and it\u2019s a chance to get a glimpse at one of the Eastern Conference\u2019s strongest teams.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Boston has overperformed at the start of the season and could be a dark-horse contender if Jayson Tatum can return this season and rally his team back to a deep playoff push.<\/p>\n<p>The Rest of the NBA Slate<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Houston Rockets at Brooklyn Nets \u2013 6 PM<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Miami Heat at Detroit Pistons \u2013 7 PM<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Philadelphia 76ers at Dallas Mavericks \u2013 8:30 PM<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Utah Jazz at LA Clippers \u2013 10:30 PM<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cavs links of the day<\/strong>NBA links<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, it\u2019s the first day of 2026. The Cleveland Cavaliers are 19-16 and host the Denver Nuggets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":484735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3125,3124,219225,3128,3139,3134,3129,39463,3136,37970,204935,22805,3120,1260,160769,219226,3123,1721,3143,21592,62,67,132,68,3132],"class_list":{"0":"post-484734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-boston-celtics","9":"tag-brooklyn-nets","10":"tag-cavs-vs-suns","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-dallas-mavericks","13":"tag-denver-nuggets","14":"tag-detroit-pistons","15":"tag-donovan-mitchell","16":"tag-houston-rockets","17":"tag-jayson-tatum","18":"tag-kenny-atkinson","19":"tag-la-clippers","20":"tag-miami-heat","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-nba-league-pass","23":"tag-nba-rookie-rankings","24":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","25":"tag-phoenix-suns","26":"tag-sacramento-kings","27":"tag-sam-merrill","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-utah-jazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}