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08 January 2025
Cavs vs. Thunder: GAME OF THE YEAR in the Making? Historic Clash of Streaking Teams This Wednesday Night!

Cavs vs. Thunder: GAME OF THE YEAR in the Making? Historic Clash of Streaking Teams This Wednesday Night!

The Best in the West is due to challenge the Beast in the East of the competition. The top team of shooting in the NBA is to play against the league’s most terrifying defense. This is the second such match in league history and has only happened once before.

 

Wednesday night’s match between Oklahoma City and Cleveland to be a preview of the NBA finals because they are so closely matched. In the way, the potential is present in every East against West game but this one is worthy of the label. The Cavaliers who had been enjoying their 10 games winning streak and a previous 15 games, they will be battling for a big momentum clash when they come against a Thunder team that is also enjoying another 15 non-losing streak.

 

This season has been defined by great streaks, and 16 of the 30 teams that make up the NBA, are already coming up with sequences of five wins or more. Which brings us to one of the most notable- the nine-game run New York had until the Thunder snapped it last Friday. Other than the current 15 game streak, some of these include: Boston; Dallas; Milwaukee; Phoenix; and Oklahoma City, all of which have had good 7 game runs.

 

The Oklahoma City Thunder and Cleveland Cavaliers too are doing much more than those impressive things. From them, history is being rewritten. The league has now had two teams with winning streaks of 15 games or more in a single season, Toronto and Milwaukee joining for the first time since the 2019-20 season. It's not common. It is in charge. Furthermore, the article is formed to show what these teams may achieve in the following months.


“There’s a different challenge every single night in the NBA season. Every game tests you in different ways.” Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said, “Every game is a challenge, and every game is an opportunity to get better.”

 

Let's not ignore the numbers, though. The Cleveland Cavaliers are 31-4 on the NBA season while on the other side the Oklahoma Thunder boasts of 30-5 record. They have an astounding record when they play together, tallying 61-9. While there is no easy game, these two giants are winning almost all of them, and often, with formidable dominance.

 

It may have been good humor when he said it might have sounded like a joke. But, the laughter produced gave way to another, more serious sentiment. Why not? The Thunder themselves were a team with a 24-58 record just two and half years ago. They now have every reason to believe that they can on the court and win every time.

 

“We expect to win every game,” Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell said.

 

“It’s cool, I try not to think about where we were or where we’re going and just stay in the moment.” Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander said.

 

On field goals, Cleveland is sizzling, boasting of a league-best 50.4 percent efficiency. On the other hand, Oklahoma City’s field goal percent is amazing as they only allow.426 of attempts. For the season, the Thunder has limited their opponent’s scoring to a league-low 103.0 points per game and the Cavaliers allow 122.5. Though Oklahoma City has shown good defense over the 3-point line with their opponents converting only 32.7 of their attempts, the Cleveland Cavaliers has been good offense with their 40.4% success rate beyond the arc.

 

No, there is a lot of basketball still coming; the regular season is far from over, for one. However, Oklahoma City is regressing in the West, while Cleveland is still well ahead of Boston in the East. For the most part, barring any sort of unforeseen circumstances, Cavs head coach Kenny Atkinson and Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault are going to be coaching in San Francisco during the All-Star Game. For this reason one wants to exclaim No.” Very soon, what with “home-court advantage” and “number one seed” will become the biggest issues in Cleveland and Oklahoma City.

 

This game will be only the third one that has had both teams with the 10-plus games-winning streak; so Wednesday was historically important. The earlier cases? It maybe noted that on February 29, 2000 both the Los Angeles Lakers and Portland where on 11–game win streak and similarly Utah and Seattle both with 10–game win streak playing each other on January 26, 1995.

 

However, history didn’t end there. In NBA history, only twice two teams have opened the season with 30-5 records or betters. The initial one? The Lakers posted a much stiffer 32–3 record at that point in the 1971–72 season while the Milwaukee Bucks raced through the campaign with a 30-5 mark. This matchup was special because of such intensity; and this accomplishment is rather unique for a basketball game.

 

Cavs and Thunder seemed set to be potential playoff foe this season and meeting at the business end of the play-offs, the NBA finals for the championship trophy. Given this dominance of these teams, it is a clear possibility of that coming to pass. The stakes? They’ve never felt higher.

 

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