{"id":765767,"date":"2022-11-14T15:38:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T20:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=765767"},"modified":"2022-11-14T15:45:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T20:45:25","slug":"kevin-love-calls-darius-garland-incredible-after-51-point-masterclass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/kevin-love-calls-darius-garland-incredible-after-51-point-masterclass\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Love Calls Darius Garland &#8216;Incredible&#8217; After 51-Point &#8220;Masterclass&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers may have come up short against the Minnesota Timberwolves, 129-124, but that wasn\u2019t from a lack of effort. All-Star guard <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Darius+Garland\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Darius+Garland\" target=\"_blank\">Darius Garland <\/a>spent Sunday night lighting up the scoreboard with a career-high 51 points and six assists on 16-31 shooting from the field (10-15 from beyond the arc). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hHYM8Q7vx0\">pic.twitter.com\/hHYM8Q7vx0<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Cleveland Cavaliers (@cavs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cavs\/status\/1592191307740585987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Garland\u2019s career-best outing was briefly the season-high across the League before Joel Embiid erupted and dropped a career-high 59 points against the Utah Jazz. Garland is the fourth player in Cavs history to score at least 50 points, joining <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=LeBron+James\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=LeBron+James\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron James<\/a> (nine times), <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Kyrie+Irving\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Kyrie+Irving\" target=\"_blank\">Kyrie Irving<\/a> (twice), and Walt Wesley (once) on the exclusive list. Cleveland\u2019s single-game scoring record is 57 points, shared by James and Irving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garland was four points shy of tying the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse mark held by Irving and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=James+Harden\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=James+Harden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Harden<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t even know I had 50 until I went to the bench,\u201d Garland said, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/recap\/_\/gameId\/401468348\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/recap\/_\/gameId\/401468348\" target=\"_blank\">per ESPN<\/a>. \u201cNo one told me, and I wasn\u2019t paying attention to anything except trying to win the game. That\u2019s the great thing about this group of guys. No one cares about individual numbers. It\u2019s all about the team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garland played a significant role in Cleveland even being competitive. The Cavs were down 99-75 late in the third quarter before DG had a fourth quarter for the ages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fourth-year guard scored 27 points in the final frame, routinely slicing and dicing offense (4\/6 from the free-throw line) and stretching (six made triples) Minnesota\u2019s defense to its utter limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIncredible performance, master class by Darius, and we\u2019re hoping for many more of those out of him,\u201d teammate\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Kevin+Love\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Kevin+Love\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Love<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cThat was just beautiful. He got to his spots, kept us right there, and gave us a chance at the end, and that\u2019s all you can ask.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">27 points in the final 12 minutes.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dariusgarland22?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dariusgarland22<\/a> scored the most points in a 4th quarter by a single player in franchise history. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LetEmKnow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LetEmKnow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QsdBgw9qaC\">pic.twitter.com\/QsdBgw9qaC<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Cleveland Cavaliers (@cavs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cavs\/status\/1592208423189647362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Cleveland ultimately lost its fourth game in a row, but it comes with the caveat of missing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Donovan+Mitchell\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Donovan+Mitchell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donovan Mitchell<\/a> (sore ankle) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Jarrett+Allen\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Jarrett+Allen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jarrett Allen<\/a> (sprained ankle) from their lineup. The Cavs will look to break their losing streak on Wednesday when they take on the Bucks at Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers may have come up short against the Minnesota Timberwolves, 129-124, but that wasn\u2019t from a lack of effort. All-Star guard Darius Garland spent Sunday night lighting up the scoreboard with a career-high 51 points and six assists on 16-31 shooting from the field (10-15 from beyond the arc). pic.twitter.com\/hHYM8Q7vx0 \u2014 Cleveland Cavaliers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":447,"featured_media":765754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62698,18,63826,62493],"tags":[64761,13006,36492,13185,330],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-765767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland-cavaliers","category-nba","category-news","category-newswire","tag-career-high-outing","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-darius-garland","tag-j-b-bickerstaff","tag-kevin-love"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765767"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765807,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765767\/revisions\/765807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765767"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=765767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}