Cleveland Cavaliers They managed to stay perfect with their eighth straight win to start the 2024-25 season. Cleveland clinched its last win with a 116-114 road win on Monday night. Milwaukee Bucks.

This is the second time in team history that a Cavaliers team started the season 8-0. The last time this happened was in the 1976-77 season.

The Cleveland team finished with a 43-39 record and lost in the first round of the playoffs, but the Cavaliers’ squad looks like true Finals contenders with just two weeks left in the regular season.

Now let’s get to the game, which ended up being much closer than it should have been.

It looks like the Cavs will cruise to their eighth straight win with a strong first half on both ends of the court. While Cleveland entered the locker room with a 19-point lead after the first 24 minutes, Milwaukee found something in the third quarter, outscoring the Wine and Gold 31-16 in the third quarter and taking an eight-point lead into the fourth quarter. quarter.

But some late-game offensive end heroics by Darius Garland and Jarrett Allen’s huge block on Damian Lillard with less than 30 seconds left allowed the Cavs to seal the deal.

DG easily put together the best performance of any member of the Cavaliers on Monday night. He finished the game with 39 points, 8 assists and 2 rebounds, while shooting 68 percent (15-for-22) from the field and 63 percent (7-for-11) from beyond the arc.

12 of the 39 points scored by Garland came in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter and the fate of the match was decided.

But the Cavs don’t want to stop there. This Wednesday night, they will travel to Louisiana to face the New Orleans Pelicans and try to extend their winning streak to nine games.