Three weeks ago the Cavaliers rolled into Boston and caught a Celtics team stinging from three straight losses. The results weren’t pretty.
On Wednesday night, the Wine & Gold was in the path of a Western Conference club in the same bad mood – as the Nuggets jumped on Cleveland from the opening tip and didn’t let up – running away with the 133-95 decision in Denver.
After a back-and-forth thriller on Monday night in the West Coast roadie opener in Phoenix, the Mile High follow-up was never a contest.
The Nuggets hit their first seven shots of the night, took a double-digit lead halfway through the first period and cruised to the finish line from there – avenging a season sweep from last year and sending the reeling Cavaliers to their fifth straight defeat.