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The Cleveland Cavaliers and Brooklyn Nets face off on Tuesday at Barclays Center in an NBA Play-In Tournament game. Who will win?

The Cavs have covered in each of their last two games as underdogs and are 2-2 ATS in their last four as underdogs. With the Cavs missing Allen, the Nets demolished Cleveland in the rebounding department, 45-31. The Nets also seem to have Cleveland’s number, having defeated the Cavs three times in four meetings this season. The Nets, who were among the preseason favorites to win the NBA title, will have the advantage of playing in front of its home crowd. Tipico has no influence over nor are any such revenues in any way dependent on or linked to the newsrooms or news coverage. Every game between the Cavs and Nets this year has gone under in the regular season. Cameron DaSilva writes: "The Nets are only 2-6 ATS in their last eight games as favorites. Unfortunately, that is not the case, and the Cavs must soldier on without him. It writes: "There will still be no Ben Simmons for the Nets, but there should be no shortage of firepower at all for Brooklyn, which will both have Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving to run the show. Moreover, Brooklyn is 7-3-1 against the spread in its last 10 games at home versus the Cavs. That includes their recent 118-107 victory just last Friday at home in which Durant went off for 36 points. The loser will face the winner of Wednesday's Charlotte Hornets vs. RB Hayek writes: "The game would be so much better if Allen were healthy.

The NBA Eastern Conference play-In tournament features the Nets, Cavaliers, Hawks and Hornets fighting for the final two playoff spots.

Brooklyn beats Cleveland in the first game for the seventh seed and Atlanta beats Charlotte to stay alive. This team is too young and too poor on defense to do much of anything beyond the play-in. The Hornets return to the play-in tournament after taking a beating in this spot a season ago. The same kind of defense that allowed 144 points in the play-in game a season ago and somehow regressed since then. The Hawks have the best offense of any team in this tournament and can’t be counted out with Young. And secondly, the offense took a massive leap from 23rd in offense rating to eighth. The development of third-year point guard Darius Garland and a vastly improved defense are to credit for the Cavaliers’ leap. And if Allen (finger) is healthy for the play-in tournament, Cleveland’s oversized frontcourt can create matchup advantages. They do, however, hold teams to a little more than 105 ppg, one of the best marks in the league. Rookie of the Year favorite Evan Mobley with first-time All-Star Jarrett Allen made for a stellar shot-blocking duo and helped Cleveland rise from 25th in defensive rating to fifth. It took all year, but finally both stars are in the lineup and Brooklyn is winning basketball games. The team with the third-best odds to win the NBA Finals is also two losses away from missing the playoffs altogether.

The NBA regular season wrapped up Sunday night with a 15-game slate. Twelve teams advanced to the NBA playoffs, earning the luxury to rest this week while ...

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Kevin Love and the Cleveland Cavaliers lost three times in four meetings with the Brooklyn Nets back in the regular season, but the Cavs...

J.B. likes to say win the scrap and all our battles are won in the trenches. The Cavs will be squaring off with Brooklyn in the play-in tournament in the Eastern Conference this coming Tuesday at Barclays Center, with Love sounding a bit cautious of what his team is about to go through, per Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com. We have that familiarity with them and we know what they’re capable of, especially with their two superstars.”

Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving had a great reaction to Kevin Durant racking up a career-high 16 assists on the last day of the season.

“PG from PG County man, I told him that in the locker room just to get a good laugh out of him,” Irving shared. "PG from PG County man, I told him in the locker room just to get a good laugh out of him…. The other night when we had him up here talking, you could hear he just has a poise about him,” Irving continued. Since the Nets love how Kyrie Irving plays off the ball, they’ve had to evolve as a team following the James Harden-Ben Simmons trade. The Brooklyn Nets clinched the No. 7 seed on Sunday and will gear up for a showdown vs. KD certainly didn’t think it was anything out of the ordinary for him given he says he has been an elite passer since 2013.

Rick Carlisle: '(We) really have kind of retrained his 3-point shot, coming off of the surgery, kind of starting from scratch again.'

He puts a lot of work in, so trust your work and put it up, and he was knocking them down." Irving scored a game-high 35 points on 15-for-20 shooting, highlighted by a vicious crossover on McConnell to free himself up and drain a wing 3 with 3:46 left in the game. "I think we'll have the pieces to do that. McConnell is a career 32.7% 3-point shooter, compared to a league average of 35.4% this season, and doesn't have the smoothest shooting mechanics. I've spent some time with him on it, and I think he's had a really good path there. McConnell has drained three 3s six times in his career, but what made his latest performance so impressive is that he did it in just his third game back.