Cavaliers thrash Miami to win play-off series 4-0
The Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Miami Heat 138-83 to secure a 4-0 first-round play-off series win and book their place in the Eastern Conference semi-finals.
Donovan Mitchell scored 22 points for the visiting Cavaliers, who were also helped by De’Andre Hunter adding 19 points, Ty Jerome scoring 18 points and Evan Mobley contributing 17 points as they won by the fourth-largest winning margin in an NBA play-off game.
“We came out here with a goal in mind, to keep our foot on their throat and on their neck and continue to play 48 minutes of basketball,” Mitchell told TNT television.
The 55-point margin was Miami’s biggest play-off defeat and overtook the
previous record of 37 points which had been set in the third game of the
best-of-seven series.
“We were humbled, but they had so much to do with how we looked,” said Miami coach Erik Spoelstra.
“None of us would have guessed this series would have gone this way coming out of our two play-ins. They just took it to another level. They left us behind these past two games.”
The Cavaliers will play either the Milwaukee Bucks or the Indiana Pacers in the next round, with the latter leading that series 3-1.
SOURCE: BBC
