Champion Boston inflicted Cleveland’s first defeat
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DThe Cleveland Cavaliers’ clean slate in the North American professional basketball league NBA has begun to show its first stains. The only undefeated team of the season lost on Tuesday (local time) at the Boston Celtics with 117:120, it was the first defeat for the team from Ohio after 15 wins. 35 points from Donovan Mitchell were not enough for the “Cavs”, who missed out on becoming the second team in NBA history to start the season with 16 wins in a row.
In the Denver Nuggets’ 122:110 win in the NBA Cup against the Memphis Grizzlies, Denver’s Russell Westbrook achieved the 200th triple-double of his career. The 36-year-old had twelve points, 14 assists and ten rebounds. Westbrook is the NBA record holder in this statistic. The Nuggets, playing their third straight game without injured superstar Nikola Jokic, gave their coach Michael Malone his 432nd victory, equaling the club record.
